Re: apt uninstall apparmor (was: Thunderbird no longer opens links)
On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 20:37:22 +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 19:16:28 +0100, solitone wrote:
>
> > On 30/11/17 08:48, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> > > On 30.11.2017 10:45, solitone wrote:
> > >> Hi, since a few days, hyperlink no longer works in my Thunderbird.
> > >> When I click a hyperlink in a message, Chromium (my system's default
> > >> web browser) should open and display the link. This has been working
> > >> fine for long, but now it no longer happens.
> > >>
> > > I had this problem too, and yes AppArmor is the reason.
> > >
> > > You can disable AppArmor for thunderbird by typing:
> > > $ sudo aa-disable /usr/bin/thunderbird
> >
> >
> > I was almost going nuts with qemu/virt-manager. I could no longer attach
> > USB devices to the guest. When shutting down the guest, it ended up in a
> > "shutting down" state, and never exited from that.
> >
> > Then I found a post [1] pointing the finger to apparmor. I uninstalled
> > it and everything works again as expected. At the moment I have no plan
> > to reinstall it.
> >
> > [1]
> > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2229882&page=2&p=13070240#post13070240
>
> Do you have a plan to inform the AppArmor team of your detailed findings?
Thought not.
Pointing the finger at a 3+ year old post on another OS is easier than
engaging in a detailed bug report which involves time and effort. And
people wonder why bugs slip through to stable.
> The wiki has some help if you don't know what to do.
The AppArmor folk are avidous for bug reports.
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Brian.
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> Brian.
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