[Bug 1553620] Re: ubiquity exec needs to be prefixed with sudo to stop crash

[Simon Quigley]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  ubiquity exec needs to be prefixed with sudo to stop crash

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Creating a live CD of 16.04.  Just happen to be using Pinguy ISO
  Builder but I guess it still applies to those that are manually
  creating a live CD using ubiquity.

  When the distroy live CD starts and the ubiquity icon on the desktop
  is run, ubiquity crashes immediately after the copy files process has
  completed.  I briefly saw it was installing locales.

  The fix is to change data/ubiquity.desktop.in and the Exec=sh -c
  'ubiquity gtk_ui' to Exec=sudo sh -c 'ubiquity gtk_ui'

  Note - using the same Pinguy code in 15.10 did not require this work
  around so something has changed in 16.04 and the live cd user account
  not having the full root permissions

  attached /var/log/partman - the /var/log/syslog was 0 bytes and there
  were no partman or syslog files in /var/log/installer

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.47 [modified: usr/share/ubiquity/apt-setup]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9.24-generic 4.4.3
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.367
  CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
  Date: Sat Mar  5 23:22:57 2016
  LiveMediaBuild: budgie-remix 16.04 - Release amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UbiquitySyslog:
   
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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