[Bug 1814611] Re: ubuntu-bug never (any longer) opens browser window

[Thomas Mayer]

A quick fix could be to document at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs that the error reporting
must be switch on first.

On top of that, ubuntu-bug could output a warning message that the error
reporting must be switched on first (and how/where this can be done).

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Title:
  ubuntu-bug never (any longer) opens browser window

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, X11 gnome session.

  For some reason ubuntu-bug <packagename> no longer opens a browser
  window, so it is not possible to enter useful bug detauls, or even
  know the bug number.

  After prompting whether or not to Send the report, clicking "Send"
  just closes appport and nothing else ever happens.  The exit status of
  "ubuntu-bug" is zero.

  This worked fine before, but it has been many months since I tried to
  submit a bug.

  strace shows many stat calls on plausible browser paths, including the one that is correct (/usr/bin/firefox, which returned a successful stat call).  I'll attach the trace output from
     
     strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log ubuntu-bug apport

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