[Bug 1929292] Re: ubiquity crashes whilst trying to use ubuntu-bug

[Brian Murray]

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Title:
  ubiquity crashes whilst trying to use ubuntu-bug

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Multiple identities can be used for authentication:
   1.  user,,, (user)
   2.  Jon Thackray,,, (jon)
  Choose identity to authenticate as (1-2): 2
  Password: 
  polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
  ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
  Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

  This incident has been reported.
  ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_ubiquity.py crashed:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 228, in _run_hook
      symb['add_info'](report, ui)
    File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_ubiquity.py", line 158, in add_info
      add_installation_log(report, 'Casper', 'casper.log')
    File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_ubiquity.py", line 29, in add_installation_log
      if isinstance(report[ident], bytes):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/collections/__init__.py", line 1010, in __getitem__
      raise KeyError(key)
  KeyError: 'Casper'

  My installation doesn't have /var/log/partman

  jon at frobenius:/var/lib$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
  Release:	20.04

  jon at frobenius:/var/lib$ apt-cache policy ubiquity
  ubiquity:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 20.04.15.11
    Version table:
       20.04.15.11 500
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
       20.04.15 500
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

  I expected to be able to report a bug I've found in qmail-run, but
  this seems to be a barrier to entry

  Instead I got to report ubiquity preventing me from reporting a bug

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-53.60~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
  Uname: Linux 5.8.0-53-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.17
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  Date: Sat May 22 13:36:26 2021
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-05-14 (8 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  Symptom: installation
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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