Apport opens crash files as "file:///" urls

[Daniel Hahler]

Binary package hint: apport

Since a while apport-gtk (and apport-qt IIRC) make Firefox open URLs like
  file:///ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/+filebug/[hash]
after having sent data for a problem report.

Obviously Firefox displays an error then that the page cannot be displayed.

Replacing "file://" with "launchpad.net" fixes this and displays the uploaded data correctly.

This is with apport 0.126 on Ubuntu Jaunty, but happened since a while already (i.e. with previous apport versions).

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

I can confirm this behaviour. I am not sure what causes it. Brian suggested bug 314263 as a possibility (same results), but I could not reproduce. This has been happening, for me, for some days/weeks now.

Jaunty, fully up-to-date. It happened at least since apport-0.121.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I read in another bug report that this only happens with crash reports that are owned by root, can you confirm or deny that?

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

I just tried with root, on an available crash report I had. It opened LP as file://...

Unfortunately, when I tried on an user crash, I got a pop-up stating libxc1 was obsolete, and apport refused to submit the report (I have just run 'sudo apt-get update). This puts me in a bind, right now: if I install the updated libxcb1, synaptic states it will remove pretty much the WHOLE of Gnome...

I will try to find something that does not depend on libxcb. Meanwhile, an user crash I submitted earlier today (i.e., non-root) worked fine, so I guess indeed this is tied to root.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Martin - can you comment as to whether or not this bug is in apport? Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

As it happens, Matt Zimmerman recently reported this very problem, but I was unable to reproduce as normal user.

I trawled through the apport code, and there was simply *nothing* using file:// URLs. However, I do use gnome-open URL, so a bug there would automatically apply to apport.

I can confirm that gnome-open rewrites URLs when being called as apport does for system crashes:

  sudo sudo -H -u '#1000' gnome-open https://launchpad.net/ubuntu

I. e. apport-gtk runs as root (first sudo), but calls gnome-open as the original user ($SUDO_USER) in order to get the real user's gconf preferences. This command opens file:///ubuntu in Firefox.

Thus I mark this as a duplicate.