Public bug reported:
When I receive a crash notification for a system crash (one that
requires root to read and write to the .crash file) and I choose to
report the bug, the bug report is opened with chromium instead of
firefox (my default browser). Looking apport/ui.py we see:
# If we are called through sudo, determine the real user id and run the
# browser with it to get the user's web browser settings.
try:
uid = int(os.getenv('PKEXEC_UID', os.getenv('SUDO_UID')))
sudo_prefix = ['sudo', '-H', '-u', '#' + str(uid)]
except TypeError:
sudo_prefix = []
try:
try:
subprocess.call(sudo_prefix + ['xdg-open', url])
except OSError as e:
# fall back to webbrowser
webbrowser.open(url, new=True, autoraise=True)
sys.exit(0)
running 'xdg-open "http://www.google.com";' opens google in firefox, however
starting a root shell via "sudo -i" and running
'sudo -H -u \#1000 xdg-open "http://www.google.com";' opens google in
chromium-browser. Further more, running 'xdg-open "http://www.google.com";' as
root presents me with a warning about refusing to start chromium as root so it
seems that the xdg-open call is using root's preferred browser and not mine.
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti)
Status: New
** Tags: trusty
** Tags added: trusty
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)
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system crash reports not opened with my default browser
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