calibre crashes on content server start when port is taken

[George]

I use calibre 0.8.38+dfsg-1 on Xubuntu 12.04. The program crashes on every attempt to start the Content Server when the video player VLC is already running. This seems to be caused by a competing HTTP server already listening on the same port as calibre (VLC also creates an HTTP server that defaults to port 8080). As a workaround, choosing a different port in calibre’s preferences seems to resolve the issue.
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: calibre 0.8.38+dfsg-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-28 (88 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

Hi George,

please run from terminal:

apport-collect 1015149

we get infromatin that we need with this.

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

After this set the status of this report back to new.

[George (gapop)]

apport information

[George (gapop)]

apport information

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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