Bug 29230

Summary:	gerbera segfaults and is not configurable
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	gerbera-1.6.4-3.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
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Description David Walser 2021-07-06 05:29:59 CEST

Gerbera replaced Mediatomb in Mageia 8, but it doesn't work, it just crashes while parsing mp3 files.

Also, mediatomb had a mediatomb.conf file which allowed you to add arguments to the daemon, rather than having to modify the systemd service file.  An /etc/sysconfig/gerbera file should be added to the package, explicitly encouraging you to specify an interface to listen on and giving you the ability to add additional arguments (--add-file being the most useful).

Probably updating Mageia 8 to 1.8.2 would be a good start:
https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera/releases/tag/v1.8.2

Hopefully the man page in that version is correct for the syntax of the add option.

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2021-07-10 09:25:28 CEST

Segfault is something I can't reproduce.

Comment 2 David Walser 2021-07-10 13:14:21 CEST

The segfault is dependent on the files it's processing.  I've never had any other software have this issue with my mp3 files, but gerbera consistently segfaults with them.  Looking at the logs, I believe I know which file it's crashing on.

Comment 3 Jani Välimaa 2021-07-10 15:27:08 CEST

It would be nice to have a reproducer. Is it because of file name or location, id3 tag or something else?

Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2021-07-11 19:16:51 CEST

I have now added support to cauldron's gerbera to configure basic systemd service parameters via /etc/sysconfig/gerbera.

Comment 5 David Walser 2021-07-11 19:43:56 CEST

And just to make it known, while I can reliably reproduce the crash, just giving it the last file it processes before it crashes, alone, doesn't make it crash, so it's hard to share a reproducer, but Jani and I have discussed it privately and I've also shared logs.  I also tried the Cauldron version and it also segfaults.