This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.17
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apport (2.20.11-0ubuntu27.17) focal; urgency=medium
* data/general-hooks/ubuntu.py: tag bugs from Raspberry Pi images and RISCV
images appropriately. (LP: #1920837)
* apport/hookutils.py: spawn pkttyagent so that log files can be gathered as
root in a non-graphical environment (LP: #1821415). Thanks to Iain Lane
for the patch.
* apport/hookutils.py: root access is needed to read the
casper-md5check.json file so switch to using that. (LP: #1922937)
-- Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:28:49 -0700
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1821415
Title:
pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment
Status in PolicyKit:
New
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Status in apport source package in Focal:
Fix Released
Status in policykit-1 source package in Focal:
Won't Fix
Status in apport source package in Groovy:
Fix Released
Status in policykit-1 source package in Groovy:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
[Impact]
The plymouth apport source package hooks wants to gather log files as the
root user and apport provides a policy kit policy for collecting that
information. This works fine in a graphical environment but not in a
non-graphical one.
[Test Case]
1) ssh into an Ubuntu Desktop install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 20.10
2) sudo touch /var/log/plymouth-debug.log
3) ubuntu@disco:~$ ubuntu-bug plymouth
*** Collecting problem information
The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
..........==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info ===
Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem
report
Authenticating as: Ubuntu (ubuntu)
Password: ....
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized
This incident has been reported.
With the version of apport from -proposed you will not see the
"AUTHENTICATION FAILED" error and the plymouth-debug.log file will be
collected.
[Where Problems Could Occur]
It's possible that the spawned pkttyagent process does not get cleaned up
properly and could be left running. When testing the SRU we should confirm it
is not still running.
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