Incorrect automatic configuration of mono-server2-hosts.conf

[John Ryan]

Binary package hint: mono-apache-server2

The /usr/sbin/mono-server2-update script erroneously adds the following line to /etc/mono-server2/mono-server2-hosts.conf:

MonoServerPath default /usr/lib/mono/2.0/mod-mono-server2.exe

instead of the correct:

MonoServerPath default /usr/bin/mod-mono-server2

/usr/lib/mono/2.0/mod-mono-server2.exe is a native Windows executable and needs to be wrapped by the script /usr/bin/mod-mono-server2 in order to function.

When apache attempts to start mod-mono-server2 with the incorrect MonoServerPath, the following error is observed in the apache error log:

[Sun Dec 30 09:44:16 2007] [error] Failed running '/usr/lib/mono/2.0/mod-mono-server2.exe --filename /tmp/.mod_mono_server2 --nonstop --appconfigdir /etc/mono-server2 (null) (null) (null) (null) (null) (null) (null)'. Reason: Exec format error

To fix the package, line 223 of mono-server2-update needs to be altered from:

    print TEMPHOST " MonoServerPath default /usr/lib/mono/2.0/mod-mono-server2.exe\n";

to:

    print TEMPHOST " MonoServerPath default /usr/bin/mod-mono-server2\n";

[Noah Massey (ubuntu-waterwelp)]

This was fixed upstream in Debian xsp (1.2.5-2) in February
I realize that intrepid has moved to 1.9,
but could we please get this fix in to the LTS?

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

In order to get something backported, please follow the process described in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

Thanks

[Noah Massey (ubuntu-waterwelp)]

from the link referenced:
"-Updates offers patches for serious bugs in Ubuntu packaging that do not affect the security of the system. "

It seems to me that having XSP fail to start on the LTS server release "represent[s] a severe deviance from expected behavior", and that the one line change referenced above both is "the minimum amount of change required to fix the bug". and has a "low-risk to breakage". As such, I think this is a good candidate for -updates.

I referenced the fact that it was changed upstream to add validity to the proposed solution, and to point out the general reliability of the change.