[Bug 1069072] Re: [Report bug] mustn't run browser as root

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  [Report bug] mustn't run browser as root

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm was running the KDE 12.10 upgrade on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. It
  put up a dialog

    Not enough free space
    The upgrade has aborted... total 2,579M ... an additional 175M of disk space

  (I can't select the dialog's text! another, different bug)

  When I clicked [Report Bug], chromium complains that it can't run as root, with an alert and:
    [11775:11775:18236679840:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_gtk.cc(50)] Startup refusing to run as root.

  I believe Firefox will run as root, but then the next time it tries to
  upgrade itself, Firefox will fail to upgrade up due to permissions.

  Let me report bugs about the ugprade, but don't start the browser as
  root!

  Here are the relevant ps alx -w -w  lines:

  F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
  4     0 11764     1  25   5   4400   672 wait   SN   ?          0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/xdg-open https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+filebug
  4     0 11775 11764  25   5 279672 24176 poll_s SNl  ?          0:00 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+filebug

  You can see it's trying to run the browser as UID 0 i.e. root.

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