do not save read-only Launchpad credentials file, and notify about it

[Johan van der Lingen]

I ran "apport-collect 367821" to send in a report on that bug, I was presented with a firefox window asking me to choose which access level to give apport. I thought "read everything" would be enough for it to work. Apparently it wasn't, I then thought I could revoke the right and redo the process(since I did not see any change button(?)). But now it doesn't present me with a window any more and I can't find settings to change it anywhere. Please point out how to solve this, or maybe it's not in which case it should be fixed imo.

[Johan van der Lingen (johanlingen-hotmail)]

removing
/home/~user/.cache/apport/launchpad.credentials

solves the problem:

when apport-collect is run again, it will prompt you again with the website, thus allowing you to change the revoked permission.

[Alex Bernea (alex-bernea)]

I can confirm the bug. I can also confirm that Johan's workaround solves the problem

[Alex Bernea (alex-bernea)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=91117883-e8de-4553-b567-27afcf45749c
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Pavilion Webcam
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv2000 (EZ644UA#ABA)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 2.6.28-11.42
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=53bb2779-d451-4c02-88d9-5fe4eb5fcad2 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev uml-net video

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

apport-collect is an Ubuntu extension, closing upstream task.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Apport should just not store a credentials file with insufficient privileges.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I made the scope more general, should/can be fixed upstream now.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.