Tuesday, September 3, 2019

apport - "System problem detected" password fail

I have multiple Ubuntu Precise servers and workstations, all of which suffer from the same really infuriating problem: when the "System Problem Detected" dialog comes up due to something or other crashing, clicking "Report Problem" throws an elevation dialog... which, unfortunately, doesn't work.


I'm assuming this means that the elevation dialog is looking for a root password - for which there is none - rather than looking for my own password to use with sudo (and, yes, my account is a member of the sudo group, and normal gksudo prompts work just fine).


Does anybody know what's up with this? I'd really LIKE to be able to submit problem reports when things crash. It irritates me to no end that I end up having to just click "close" like some kind of scrub who doesn't care about reporting bugs. >=[

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