hardy - "You are not allowed to access this problem report"

[Savvas Radevic]

Binary package hint: apport

hardy 8.04 alpha 5 updated

Apport needs an administrator verification or "gksudo" integrated in its reporting. I recently had a problem, system-wise (specifically usplash) when I shut down my computer. When I booted it back, there was an apport report waiting for me. I chose not to send it at that time. I went later to /var/crash and tried to report it by double-clicking on the file, thus I got the error "You are not allowed to access this problem report".
Instead of that, there should be a password verification first.

$ apt-cache policy apport
apport:
  Installed: 0.103
  Candidate: 0.103
  Version table:
 *** 0.103 0
        500 http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Right, that should happen in the UI somehow. In the meantime, you can use "sudo touch /var/crash/*" to mark them as 'unseen' again, or run "gksu /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk -c /path/to/crashfile".