Public bug reported:
There are some situations where it is desirable to gather debugging
information on a system affected by a bug, but to login (to
Launchpad/Ubuntu SSO) and complete editing this bug report from a
different system.
This is already implemented for situations where the affected system
runs headless, i.e. servers without a graphical display. However, this
should also be a user choice exposed as a command line option to ubuntu-
bug (which, at least according to --help it currently is not).
A common use case where this would be nice to have is testing software
in a VM, but not wanting to expose Ubuntu SSO credentials to this VM
(e.g. for security concerns). Another use case is a need to report a
serious bug in the default web browser where this web browser is unable
to access any websites.
There is a workaround:
DISPLAY= ubuntu-bug somepackage
Unfortunately this means the debugging data collection phase will provide a
text-only UI instead of the nicer / more user-friendly GTK one.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jun 2 01:24:07 2019
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-01-17T11:47:59.939850
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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