Public bug reported: There are some situations where it is desirable to gather debugging information on a system affected by a bug, but to login (to Launchpad/Ubuntu SSO) and complete editing this bug report from a different system.
This is already implemented for situations where the affected system runs headless, i.e. servers without a graphical display. However, this should also be a user choice exposed as a command line option to ubuntu- bug (which, at least according to --help it currently is not). A common use case where this would be nice to have is testing software in a VM, but not wanting to expose Ubuntu SSO credentials to this VM (e.g. for security concerns). Another use case is a need to report a serious bug in the default web browser where this web browser is unable to access any websites. There is a workaround: DISPLAY= ubuntu-bug somepackage Unfortunately this means the debugging data collection phase will provide a text-only UI instead of the nicer / more user-friendly GTK one. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 5.0.6 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jun 2 01:24:07 2019 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: apport UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-01-17T11:47:59.939850 ** Affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1831351 Title: Please provide option to continue bug report from different computer Status in apport package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: There are some situations where it is desirable to gather debugging information on a system affected by a bug, but to login (to Launchpad/Ubuntu SSO) and complete editing this bug report from a different system. This is already implemented for situations where the affected system runs headless, i.e. servers without a graphical display. However, this should also be a user choice exposed as a command line option to ubuntu-bug (which, at least according to --help it currently is not). A common use case where this would be nice to have is testing software in a VM, but not wanting to expose Ubuntu SSO credentials to this VM (e.g. for security concerns). Another use case is a need to report a serious bug in the default web browser where this web browser is unable to access any websites. There is a workaround: DISPLAY= ubuntu-bug somepackage Unfortunately this means the debugging data collection phase will provide a text-only UI instead of the nicer / more user-friendly GTK one. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 5.0.6 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jun 2 01:24:07 2019 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: apport UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-01-17T11:47:59.939850 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1831351/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp