Ubuntu
apport package

  1. Bug #87364
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 87364

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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) wrote :

snifer@snifer-laptop:/var/crash$ ls -l
total 28
-rw------- 1 root root 27297 2007-10-15 03:38 _usr_bin_displayconfig-gtk.0.crash
snifer@snifer-laptop:/var/crash$ /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk -c _usr_bin_displayconfig-gtk.0.crash
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 252, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport/ui.py", line 256, in run_argv
    self.run_crash(self.options.crash_file, False)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport/ui.py", line 113, in run_crash
    apport.fileutils.mark_report_seen(report_file)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport/fileutils.py", line 92, in mark_report_seen
    f = open(report)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '_usr_bin_displayconfig-gtk.0.crash'
snifer@snifer-laptop:/var/crash$ sudo /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk -c _usr_bin_displayconfig-gtk.0.crash

At this point I experience bug #152990, where Alexander Sack said <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/152990/comments/2>: "starting firefox as root is not supported".