Public bug reported: If a crash report is triggered automatically (say from a program crash etc) then the Apport UI pops up asking whether to report this - if I choose to proceed, after about 30 seconds gedit pops up with a HTML document showing 'OpenID transaction in progress' - which is the login.launchpad.net openid page. Looking at the gedit document title this shows the URL which should have got loaded by firefox - and so it appears that gedit has been spawned instead of firefox to handle the xdg-open call to report the bug.
>From journalctl I can see that it is root spawning this xdg-open call: Feb 11 13:06:24 slate sudo[266010]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/root ; USER=amurray ; ENV=DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/xdg-open https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /dleyna-core/+filebug/4bc4c494-4c77-11ea-b34a- 002481e7f48a?field.title=package+libdleyna- core-1.0-5+%28not+installed%29+failed+to+install%2Fupgrade%3A+trying+to+overwrite+%27%2Fusr%2Flib%2Fx86_64 -linux-gnu%2Flibdleyna-core-1.0.so.5.0.0%27%2C+which+is+also+in+package +libdleyna-core-1.0-3%3Aamd64+0.6.0-1 And so I wonder if it is something to do with root's configuration for preferred applications (or not...) This does not occur when running ubuntu-bug from a terminal (since I assume in this case, the xdg-open call ends up coming from the users' own session). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: apport 2.20.11-0ubuntu16 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-12.15-generic 5.4.8 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportLog: ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Feb 11 13:34:42 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-18 (84 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: apport UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-01-22 (19 days ago) ** Affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal ** Attachment added: "gedit with the crash report" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862717/+attachment/5327200/+files/Screenshot%20from%202020-02-11%2013-42-40.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862717 Title: Automatic crash report bug reports opened in gedit rather than the browser To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1862717/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
