terminator intercepts Record your encryption passphrase run this action now

[Jonathan Brier]

I upgraded from Ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10. The Information available prompt appeared with the "Record your encryption passphrase" notice. I clicked on the Run this action now where a terminal should have appeared with the encryption passphrase, but a terminator terminal appeared with "Unable to find a shell" text displayed instead of the passphrase.

Either terminator is intercepting the terminal action for the Information Available Record your encryption passphrase prompt and not executing the command correctly or that prompt window does not handle handoff to the terminal action correctly.

Either way the user is not presented with the encryption passphrase as expected with terminator installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: terminator 0.97-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 22 14:40:24 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-29 (265 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20141015)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: terminator
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-22 (0 days ago)

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Some questions (I still live on 14.04 LTS, with no encryption, so this is not something I've seen) although I think the issue is already fixed in the 0.98 release.

Before attempting the upgrade:
1) You have encryption setup? (full disk? home folder?)
2) You have set Terminator as the default Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T global shortcut launches Terminator instead of GNOME-Terminal)

On attempting upgrade
3) The upgrade process prompts to store the password for the encrypted drive/folder? (I'm guessing this is either to unlock on login, or to store multiple disk encryption passwords under a master password so only a single password is requested at startup?)

Can you if possible:
4) get the output of "ps -ef | grep -e terminator -e terminal-emulator" while the problem terminal is open so I can see what parameters were passed to Terminator.

Where possible Terminator tries to follow whatever GNOME-Terminal does with regards command-line handling. There was however a modification/fix for x-terminal-emulator handling of -e / --execute in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/trunk/revision/1446 added since 0.97 that could have
a) fixed things, or
b) broken things if Ubuntu backported the fix to Vivid (unlikely).
I think a) is the appropriate one.

I suspect if this activity was repeated (probably not possible now) with the new 0.98 that contains rev. 1446 installed before attempting the upgrade, then you would not have encountered this issue.