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Apport bug reporter on "system" software crashes launches Firefox instead of user-preferred web browser

Bug #131350 reported by Alexander Jones
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: apport

Apport on regular user software crashes correctly launches my preferred browser, Epiphany.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 9 17:30:50 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: apport 0.94
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :
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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I can confirm this, Evolution crashing caused Firefox, not Epiphany to open.

Changed in apport:
status: New → Confirmed
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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

Actually, evolution isn't "system" software, unless you were running it as root. Have you configured Epiphany as your default browser in Preferred Applications?

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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Epiphany is configured correctly in my case.

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Fabien Tassin (fta) wrote :

I just proposed a fix, to be merged into the main branch: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~fta/apport/apport/+merge/758

Please, give it a try.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Merged Fabien's branch into trunk, thank you!

Changed in apport:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 0.114

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apport (0.114) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Fabien Tassin ]
  * apport/ui.py: Use preferred browser when it's recognized as a
    Mozilla browser (firefox, seamonkey, flock) or Epiphany (LP: #131350)

  [ Oumar Aziz OUATTARA ]
  * apport/crashdb.py: Add support for /etc/apport/crashdb.conf.d/*.conf crash
    database configuration files. Document it in doc/crashdb-conf.txt.
  * apport/ui.py: Support a new field "CrashDB" in apport reports which select
    a non-default crash database. Document this in doc/package-hooks.txt.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * apport/report.py: If a hook crashes with an exception, print it to
    stderr, for easier debugging of hooks.
  * apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py: If PackageArchitecture is 'all', fall
    back to looking at Architecture instead of not adding a
    needs-$ARCH-retrace tag at all. This prevented signal crashes originating
    from e. g. Python packages from being automatically retraced.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:51:24 +0200

Changed in apport:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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