[Bug 1287460] Re: system crash reports not opened with my default browser

[Martin Pitt]

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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Title:
  system crash reports not opened with my default browser

Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When I receive a crash notification for a system crash (one that
  requires root to read and write to the .crash file) and I choose to
  report the bug, the bug report is opened with chromium instead of
  firefox (my default browser).  Looking apport/ui.py we see:

          # If we are called through sudo, determine the real user id and run the
          # browser with it to get the user's web browser settings.
          try:
              uid = int(os.getenv('PKEXEC_UID', os.getenv('SUDO_UID')))
              sudo_prefix = ['sudo', '-H', '-u', '#' + str(uid)]
          except TypeError:
              sudo_prefix = []

          try:
              try:
                  subprocess.call(sudo_prefix + ['xdg-open', url])
              except OSError as e:
                  # fall back to webbrowser
                  webbrowser.open(url, new=True, autoraise=True)
                  sys.exit(0)

  running 'xdg-open "http://www.google.com"' opens google in firefox, however starting a root shell via "sudo -i" and running
  'sudo -H -u \#1000 xdg-open "http://www.google.com"' opens google in chromium-browser.  Further more, running 'xdg-open "http://www.google.com"' as root presents me with a warning about refusing to start chromium as root so it seems that the xdg-open call is using root's preferred browser and not mine.

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