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  1. Bug #146464
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 146464

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Till Ulen (tillulen) wrote :

> apport (0.99) hardy; urgency=low
>
> [...]
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> * apport/ui.py, run_crash(): Show a proper UI error message instead of just
> crashing with an exception if the crash report is inaccessible for the
> invoking user. (LP: #146464)

The UI error message in apport version 0.103 (ui.py, line 231) does not explain how to report the crash in a process that ran as root. That is a common use case, and novice users don't know they can open a terminal and run something like gksudo gnome-open /var/crash/foobar.0.crash.

Should I open a separate bug report about this UI issue?