[Bug 997020] Re: apport-collect does not work on headless servers

[Maraschin]

I just run on another use case for this:

A kernel upgrade made gnome unable to start, apport-collect needs to have a confirmation from a browser but since I can't start a normal desktop, I can't send the report.
The workaround using w3m may work but than after that I need to set back to firefox, not the easiest way. We could improve here a lot!

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Title:
  apport-collect does not work on headless servers

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It is essential that apport-collect  works on a headless/non-X
  installs in order to report bugs. In this case, apport-collect tries
  to use a text-based browser to attempt to login to Launchpad.

  I tried lynx, links2, elinks and w3m. With elinks I get the following
  message: "Your Page Was Stale" after selecting "continue".

  This bug is related to #556927, #645024 and #683337. As these only
  concern the functioning of w3m, I would here like to raise the issue
  that a proper installation must make sure that a compatible text-based
  browser is installed and set as default.

  WORKAROUND: Execute the following:
  sudo apt-get install w3m
  sudo update-alternatives --set www-browser /usr/bin/w3m

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