apport fails to communicate with the web browser for system-level crashes (wrong uid or env?)

Have this catched for a some days, SAM_ has confirmed.

See bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/913784

I close mine as dub.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

SAM_ has seen this a security vulnarability, see the link to the report.

I have the same problem. I have this problem also when I try to open Last.fm from Rhythmbox.

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

Running Ubuntu Precise.

apport-collect requests restart of firefox or the system (screenshot). Quit with ctrl+c terminal output:
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 398, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 575, in run_argv
    return self.run_update_report()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 426, in run_update_report
    if not self.crashdb.can_update(self.options.update_report):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 494, in can_update
    bug = self.launchpad.bugs[id]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py", line 948, in __getitem__
    shim_resource._ensure_representation()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py", line 357, in _ensure_representation
    representation = self._root._browser.get(self._wadl_resource)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lazr/restfulclient/_browser.py", line 291, in get
    response, content = self._request(url, extra_headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lazr/restfulclient/_browser.py", line 242, in _request
    str(url), method=method, body=data, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lazr/restfulclient/_browser.py", line 211, in _request_and_retry
    url, method=method, body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1444, in request
    (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/launchpadlib/launchpad.py", line 127, in _request
    return self.retry_on_bad_token(response, content, *args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/launchpadlib/launchpad.py", line 139, in retry_on_bad_token
    self.launchpad.credentials, self.launchpad.credential_store)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/launchpadlib/credentials.py", line 492, in __call__
    self.make_end_user_authorize_token(credentials, request_token_string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/launchpadlib/credentials.py", line 584, in make_end_user_authorize_token
    time.sleep(access_token_poll_time)
KeyboardInterrupt

I installed alpha-2 cd and have the same bug - see my description from Bug #927037

Fixed in trunk r2144.

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.93-0ubuntu1

---------------
apport (1.93-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream bug fix release:
    - apport-gtk: Fix crash on nonexisting icon. Thanks Evan Dandrea.
      (LP: #937354)
    - ui.py, open_url(): Revert back to calling sudo instead of dropping
      privileges ourselves; with the latter, calling firefox as the sudo'ing
      user fails. (LP: #916810, #938128)
    - ui.py: Fix aborting with "AssertionError" if the report is already
      known, but without an URL. (LP: #938778)
    - launchpad.py: If a bug is already known, but the report is private, do
      not send the report. There is little sense piling up lots of duplicates.
      (LP: #938700)
    - test/crash: Fix regression of test_crash_apport(), consider $TERM a
      non-sensitive variable.
    - ui.py: Fix test failures for data collection progress, they are not
      expected to happen for "ProblemType: Crash" any more (happens in the
      background during sending, or if user clicks on "Show Details").
    - test/hooks: Use a package from Debian/Ubuntu main, so that this works
      better during package builds on build servers.
    - test/python: Do not assume that /var/crash/ exists. Use /var/tmp/ for
      the fake binaries instead.
    - data/general-hooks/parse_segv.py: Fix test case name.
    - ui.py: Fix crash on invalid core dumps. (LP: #937215)
    - launchpad.py: Fix crash on unicode report titles. (LP: #896626)
    - apport-gtk: Show the most interesting fields first in the details view.
    - do-release: Call pyflakes and abort on errors other than unused imports.
    - Move all test suites out of the code modules into test/test_<module>.py.
      This avoids having to load it every time the program runs, and also
      allows running the tests against the installed version of Apport.
    - Clean up the other executable test script in test/* and change them to
      the same structure as the module tests.
  * debian/control: Add python-mock and GTK gir build dependencies for the
    gtk/kde tests.
  * debian/control: Add procps dependency to avoid a "command not found" error
    for killall in the ubuntu.py general hook during the test suite.
  * debian/control: Add missing python-gi dependency to apport-gtk.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:22:37 +0100

When the browser is running in the fluxbox unable to open a link from the programs (need close ff), in Unity OK. Probably a problem in xdg-open? Bug #931407