[Bug 1504663] Re: apport-cli hangs during prompt for authentication password

[Benjamin Drung]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. I watched the video and that was helpful. I was able to
reproduce it on Ubuntu 22.10, but the issue is not that apport-cli
hangs. It just waits for you to enter your password while still printing
dots. So I will rephrase this bug report that the UI is bad/misleading.

Solution: Enter your password and press enter. Then apport-cli will
continue. You might be asked multiple times for your password.

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- apport-cli hangs during prompt for authentication password
+ apport-cli prints dots while waiting for password input

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Title:
  apport-cli prints dots while waiting for password input

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Summary
  =======

  apport-cli might ask the user to authenticate:

  ```
  Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report
  Authenticating as: <the install full user name>,,, (<the install user>)
  Password: 
  ```

  But it still continues to print a dot every second or so. This
  confuses the user thinking that apport-cli is still doing something
  and then not entering the password.

  Solution / Workaround
  =====================

  Enter your password and press enter. Then apport-cli will continue.
  You might be asked multiple times for your password.

  Original bug report
  ===================

  After a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 15.04 on an HP Pavilion 15-f039wv laptop, I wanted to report an installation bug.  In the newly installed server I ran the command:
      apport-bug debian-installer
  (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage says to use debian-installer as the package name for this situation)
  It produced the following output (lines of only minus signs not included):

  ------------------------------------------------------------
  *** Collecting problem information

  The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the application.  This might take a few minutes.
  ..dpkg-query: no packages found matching debian-installer
  ....==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info ===
  Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report
  Authenticating as: <the install full user name>,,, (<the install user>)
  Password: ..........................................................................................................................................................
  .............................................................................................................................................................................
  ------------------------------------------------------------

  where <the install full user name> and <the install user> were values I entered during the install and were for the user I was logged in as at the time of running the command, although the actual values are redacted for this public bug report.
  There were a total of 32 lines of period on a 17-inch display, more than 5440 periods, that were regularly displayed over more than 40 minutes.

  I finally hit Ctl-C, and got the additional messages (lines of only minus signs not included):
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  ==== AUTHENTICATION FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info ===
  Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report
  Authenticating as: <the install full user name>,,, (<the install user>)
  Password:
  ------------------------------------------------------------

  This time the blinking cursor waited after the "Password: " prompt.

  Not knowing (or being able to find in man pages) what kind of password
  I should use, I again pressed Ctl-C, which produced the following
  messages (lines of only minus signs not included):

  ------------------------------------------------------------
  Exception ignored in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py'>
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line1294, in _shutdown
      t.join()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line 1060, in join
      self._wait_for_tstate_lock()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line 1076, in _wait_for_tstate_lock
      elif lock.acquire(block, timeout):
  Keyboard Interrupt
  ------------------------------------------------------------

  Where "<module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py'>" is
  what was actually displayed.

  This terminated my apport-bug command and returned to the command
  prompt.

  I subsequently submitted the bug through the Launchpad web interface.

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