boinc-client bad signature for URL

[Benjamin Kerensa]

Essentially this bug has occurred in previous releases and fixes have occurred and yet it is now coming back in 11.10. Whenever I try to attach to any boinc account manager it hangs and the logs show errors indicating "boinc-client bad signature for URL".

Similar to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/585547

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: boinc-client 6.12.33+dfsg-1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 19 16:21:43 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: boinc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

Verified this is a valid 64bit specific boinc bug since it is not occuring on 32bit installs and I have tried it on two fresh amd64 11.10 installs and had two other people check on their 11.10 installs.

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

Bug reported upstream:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/1145

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Could you please try 6.12.34 from there?

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

thanks

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

LocotusOfBorg: I will tomorrow morning... I downgraded back to i386 after spending two days trying to find a work around.... Notably 6.12.33 was installing default on amd64 11.10

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

Upstream confirmed the bug and said the following "This should be fixed in 6.12.42 or better." however the problem is Ubuntu is using a version lower then that so the bug still exists.

Any possibility of bumping up to 6.12.42 or better.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

According to [1] and [2] this version hasn't been released and built yet.

So the process will be a little long: release the version to boinc alpha tester, package the version in both debian and ubuntu, SRU it to at least oneiric and release it to everybody.
I'm sorry but it will take a while.

Setting to fix committed.

[1] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/?C=M;O=D
[2] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is an incorrect use of Fix Committed as the fix is not committed to the Ubuntu package at all. If there is a specific patch that fixes this particular issue it will be much easier to get fixed in Oneiric.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

(Sorry, fix committed was intender for the upstream bug, I made a mistake in clicking)

Rom said it has a patch, but I'm checking in trac and the only changeset made by him is 24471
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/24471
and 24470 (on trunk branch)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

@Brian I have uploaded a simple patch to fix this bug.

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[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

This patch appears to be applied in precise.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Could this patch be backported to oneiric?

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Fixed in trunk in revision 23007

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Uploaded, pending SRU team review

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Benjamin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted boinc into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

Confirmed bug in 6.12.33+dfsg-1.1 and verified fix in proposed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package boinc - 6.12.33+dfsg-1.1ubuntu0.1

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boinc (6.12.33+dfsg-1.1ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * upstream_strcpy_overlap.patch: Apply upstream patch to not use strcpy() on
    overlapping regions. (LP: #878571)
 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:11:14 +0200