Comment 5 for bug 1731516

I tested the latest BleachBit (a bit newer than 1.19 beta) on Ubuntu 16.04. When I use "sudo python bleachbit.py" my diagnostic information looks like yours (such as LOGNAMEE, USER, and SUDO_UID). It does seem like you are root.

I can run apt autoclean and autoremove without any errors, and I enabled extra debugging and saw that apt was really running. For example, I saw this

Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 72 not upgraded.

There was a change 9/23/2017 to apt clean, but that did not affect autoclean or autoremove.

There was another change to apt 8/12/2017, but it just added the PATH environment variable. This seems unrelated.

Another change to apt made 10/22/2016 seems unrelated.

So far it is not clear why it fails on your system.

Have you tried BleachBit version 1.12? While changes were made since 1.12 that seem unrelated, it would be interesting to test 1.12.

Do you have any extra security software on your system like SELinux?