apport-collect does not work on headless servers
Bug #997020 reported by
arnuschky
This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It is essential that apport-collect works on a headless/non-X installs in order to report bugs. In this case, apport-collect tries to use a text-based browser to attempt to login to Launchpad.
I tried lynx, links2, elinks and w3m. With elinks I get the following message: "Your Page Was Stale" after selecting "continue".
This bug is related to #556927, #645024 and #683337. As these only concern the functioning of w3m, I would here like to raise the issue that a proper installation must make sure that a compatible text-based browser is installed and set as default.
WORKAROUND: Execute the following:
sudo apt-get install w3m
sudo update-alternatives --set www-browser /usr/bin/w3m
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.