As it turns out, we were setting $BROWSER to `sudo -H -u lubuntu firefox' all the way up until Jammy: https://git.lubuntu.me/Lubuntu/calamares-settings-ubuntu/src/branch/ubuntu/jammy/lubuntu/lubuntu-calamares.desktop.in
As you can see in the upstream bug that's mentioned in the upstream bug linked to this report, we then switched to using pkexec, which kind of ruined everything: https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1217 For Noble, we've kind of clobbered over that, too, so I put us back to setting $BROWSER, which should solve this: https://git.lubuntu.me/Lubuntu/calamares-settings-ubuntu/commit/27850a5f222287d65ace653cf24f3eaf9995dd07 There are some other unrelated changes that will get wrapped up with this and should be released as calamares-settings-ubuntu 1:24.04.21. We can't reasonably backport this to Mantic, but that's not too bad given it's only supported for a few more months. In the end, this is a bit of a workaround. There is talk upstream of either changing how Calamares internally handles URLs or making it so that Calamares doesn't have to run as root. ** Bug watch added: Calamares Issues #1217 https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1217 ** Also affects: calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Lubuntu Developers (lubuntu-dev) ** Changed in: calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-24.04 ** No longer affects: calamares (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1981473 Title: Calamares fails to open any links (such as "Donate" or links in the "About" dialog) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calamares/+bug/1981473/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
