Public bug reported: I'm was running the KDE 12.10 upgrade on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. It put up a dialog
Not enough free space The upgrade has aborted... total 2,579M ... an additional 175M of disk space (I can't select the dialog's text! another, different bug) When I clicked [Report Bug], chromium complains that it can't run as root, with an alert and: [11775:11775:18236679840:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_gtk.cc(50)] Startup refusing to run as root. I believe Firefox will run as root, but then the next time it tries to upgrade itself, Firefox will fail to upgrade up due to permissions. Let me report bugs about the ugprade, but don't start the browser as root! Here are the relevant ps alx -w -w lines: F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 4 0 11764 1 25 5 4400 672 wait SN ? 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/xdg-open https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+filebug 4 0 11775 11764 25 5 279672 24176 poll_s SNl ? 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+filebug You can see it's trying to run the browser as UID 0 i.e. root. ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069072 Title: [Report bug] mustn't run browser as root To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1069072/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
