Sorry about taking so long to get back to you: I have been really busy recently.
> Hello Calum, > thanks for using apt-listbugs and for caring about reporting the > issue > you experienced. Thank you for your quick responce! Besides, what is the point of running sid if not to find bugs and make someone else fix them? > OK, this launches querybts from package reportbug, which you have on > your system: Sounds good... > OK, please note that this is a menu of the querybts user interface... I got that far > First of all: it seems to me that you have firefox-esr unpacked, but > not configured. In other words, firefox-esr does not seem to be > properly installed on your system: > > [from System Information in your bug report...] > > iu firefox-esr [www-browser] 68.4.1esr-1 > [...] > > This could be responsible for a number of errors you encounter, when > trying to start firefox... Okay. I did test a bit, and firefox is definatly working: so if its not unpacked, then somthing weird is going on... > I guess xdg-open (internally used by querybts to find a browser) > eventually selected a text browser, such as lynx or w3m: It did. I think the errors made that more clear: I'm setting up a controlled test to capture a few. > I tried to reproduce the issue, but I was not successful: querybts > started w3m in my case, without any firefox-related errors. So much for this being a nice, open-and-shut case. > But the selected browser heavily depends on the system configuration, > on installed packages, and so forth... > I am not sure I will be able to investigate this for your system: > I'll > have to look deeper, in order to understand which are the key > questions > I should ask to you... Ask away > How did you start the root session where you were upgrading you > system? > Were you inside a desktop session? > Did you open a terminal? > Did you use > > $ su - > > to become root and then start apt or aptitude? > Or were you using sudo? So, I was in the GNOME desktop, and to get to apt I opened GNOME shell (as a normal user) and used sudo apt update, followed by sudo apt upgrade. See the reproduced log I attached: basically, just a typical go-to-the-menu-and-click-on-terminal type operation. > Since you have s6 installed, apt-listbugs may have launched querybts > as > your regular (non-root) user, through s6-setuidgid. However, this > does > not correspond to a "full-featured" user session, hence access to > your > "normal" user environment is partially unachievable... > It's complicated (and it will slightly change in the next version of > apt-listbugs!): I will try to give more details on this, after I > receive more info from you... Okay: good to know. > I should look into querybts and reportbug code more deeply, to be > sure, > but maybe in that case querybts ran a text browser as root, thus > introducing fewer indirectness levels... > Please provide the requested additional info and let's see whether we > can shed more light on the issue. Okay. I also ran a more controlled test: attached is the text file of my logs. I annotated them with a few comments as well, because why not? Thanks again: I kind of rely on listbugs to be sure my system isn't going to go nuclear on me. > Awkward configuration: you seem to be worried about minor bugs, but > not > about normal bugs... You know how it is: everyone tells you to not sweat the little things, but you still sweat them enough that you miss the "normal" bugs Thanks for the catch: I was trying to list all, but without wishlist bugs: I guess I forgot about the normies. I switched to using just "all" lol.
//So, to be sure to trigger the problem, I decided to try and install a known-bad //package. McComix happened to be at the top of the list when I used the BTS //web interface to find critical bugs. I'll try to note down all the things //not included in the log directly. //yes, all lines beginning with the c-style comments are me, after the fact. //(the reason I am in apt.conf.d is to make the fix I meantioned to listbugs) calum@CalumsDebianSupreme:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d$ sudo apt install mcomix Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: unrar | libunrar mupdf-tools The following NEW packages will be installed: mcomix 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2,637 kB of archives. After this operation, 3,972 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 mcomix all 1.2.1mcomix3+git20191129-1 [2,637 kB] Fetched 2,637 kB in 1s (1,954 kB/s) Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done critical bugs of mcomix (→ 1.2.1mcomix3+git20191129-1) <Outstanding> b1 - #947508 - mcomix: Upgrade to Python 3 fork deletes user bookmarks important bugs of mcomix (→ 1.2.1mcomix3+git20191129-1) <Outstanding> b2 - #945493 - mcomix: Library shows not all Thumbnails normal bugs of mcomix (→ 1.2.1mcomix3+git20191129-1) <Outstanding> b3 - #815483 - mcomix: Error opening cbr file b4 - #928086 - mcomix: /tmp is not for large files wishlist bugs of mcomix (→ 1.2.1mcomix3+git20191129-1) <Outstanding> b5 - #943642 - Tablet page flipping Summary: mcomix(5 bugs) //Paused for input here: I was worried about them thumbnails! Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] b2 Retrieving report #945493 from Debian bug tracking system... //Displayed the report in a less-style format (I'm not sure it was less, but it //was pagninated plain text) What do you want to do now? [N|x|o|r|b|e|q|?]? b //Trigger the bug: this is where the pop-ups start Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory. Home directory not accessible: Permission denied W: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to open configuration file '/root/.config/pulse//daemon.conf': Permission denied W: [pulseaudio] daemon-conf.c: Failed to open configuration file: Permission denied (firefox-esr:36029): dconf-CRITICAL **: 19:57:57.651: unable to create directory '/root/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. (firefox-esr:36029): dconf-CRITICAL **: 19:57:57.651: unable to create directory '/root/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. //Pop-up comes here: terminal waits for me to hit "okay" //The number of error lines varies between tests: sometimes the firefox-esr line //prints twice, other time thrice. The ammount of time I wait to hit okay might //be what influences that. Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory. Home directory not accessible: Permission denied W: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to open configuration file '/root/.config/pulse//daemon.conf': Permission denied W: [pulseaudio] daemon-conf.c: Failed to open configuration file: Permission denied //I know, right? WTF is pulseaudio doing here? I'm not playing any music (though there are //heaphones connected) (firefox-esr:36079): dconf-CRITICAL **: 19:58:00.058: unable to create directory '/root/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. (firefox-esr:36079): dconf-CRITICAL **: 19:58:00.059: unable to create directory '/root/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. (firefox-esr:36079): dconf-CRITICAL **: 19:58:00.069: unable to create directory '/root/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. //Same situation: terminal pauses until I hit okay. Here you also see the //esr error print three times Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory. Home directory not accessible: Permission denied W: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to open configuration file '/root/.config/pulse//daemon.conf': Permission denied W: [pulseaudio] daemon-conf.c: Failed to open configuration file: Permission denied (firefox-esr:36125): dconf-CRITICAL **: 19:58:00.882: unable to create directory '/root/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. (firefox-esr:36125): dconf-CRITICAL **: 19:58:00.882: unable to create directory '/root/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. //Final "okay" is here /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: iceweasel: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: seamonkey: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: mozilla: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: epiphany: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: konqueror: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: chromium: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: chromium-browser: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: google-chrome: not found //The plain text viewer opened here: I quit out of it What do you want to do now? [N|x|o|r|b|e|q|?]? q Exiting. Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] n ********************************************************************** ****** Exiting with an error in order to stop the installation. ****** ********************************************************************** E: Sub-process /usr/bin/apt-listbugs apt returned an error code (10) E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listbugs apt //Ending was as expected //Here, I run querybts as sudo to show the differences calum@CalumsDebianSupreme:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d$ sudo querybts 947508 //I often have connection problems: that could explain the magic cookies. However, //they are usually cyclical, after a certain period of use. And we were in the 'happy' //portion of said cycles when I ran these/ Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Retrieving report #947508 from Debian bug tracking system... What do you want to do now? [x|O|r|b|e|q|?]? b Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Error: cannot open display: :1 Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Error: cannot open display: :1 Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Error: cannot open display: :1 /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: iceweasel: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: seamonkey: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: mozilla: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: epiphany: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: konqueror: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: chromium: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: chromium-browser: not found /usr/bin/xdg-open: 870: google-chrome: not found //Same text viewer opened up. What do you want to do now? [x|O|r|b|e|q|?]? q Exiting.
