[Bug 1991470] Re: x-www-browser in Xubuntu is broken, affects Ubiquity

[Sean Davis]

Thanks for your bug report. Indeed, x-www-browser is pointing at
chromium-browser, which seems to be installed for some reason. We'll
investigate.

xubuntu at xubuntu:~$ ls -lart /usr/bin/x-www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Sep 18  2020 /usr/bin/x-www-browser -> /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser

xubuntu at xubuntu:~$ ls -lart /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Sep 18  2020 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/chromium-browser

** Changed in: xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  x-www-browser in Xubuntu is broken, affects Ubiquity

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in xubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I am attempting to install a system using the released Xubuntu 22.04.1
  (jammy) installer.

  An error occurred during the install process, and then the installer
  failed to open a browser to report the issue. (This bug report
  concerns the latter fault.)

  Below is an excerpt from syslog. It appears that x-www-browser has not
  been adjusted to use Firefox:

  
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1856, in <module>
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py:     install.run()
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 61, in wrapper
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py:     func(self)
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 237, in run
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py:     self.configure_bootloader()
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 995, in configure_bootloader
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py:     raise install_misc.InstallStepError(
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
  Oct  2 03:18:23 xubuntu plugininstall.py: 
  Oct  2 03:19:45 xubuntu ubiquity: 
  Oct  2 03:19:45 xubuntu ubiquity: Command '/usr/bin/x-www-browser' requires the chromium snap to be installed.
  Oct  2 03:19:45 xubuntu ubiquity: Please install it with:
  Oct  2 03:19:45 xubuntu ubiquity: 
  Oct  2 03:19:45 xubuntu ubiquity: snap install chromium
  Oct  2 03:19:45 xubuntu ubiquity: 
  Oct  2 03:19:45 xubuntu ubiquity[2329]: log-output -t ubiquity apport-bug ubiquity
  Oct  2 03:19:45 xubuntu ubiquity[2329]: Reverting lockdown of the desktop environment.

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