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[Jay Morgan <morganjayp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Trying to use Ubuntu as a Kiosk platform.  13.04 doesn't work because
the video is borked on our netbooks without nomodeset, which destroys
the performance.  I'd use 12.04 LTS, but Firefox doesn't work as guest
on any version of ubuntu because it doesn't support proxy env vars.  And
on the LTS version... THIS?  Is there a single version of Ubuntu that
doesn't have a major show-stopping bug?  Particularly with the ability
to browse the internet?  How can this be such a "low" priority when
internet browsing is pretty much the whole point of the guest account?
In this day, what function of the computer is more important than the
internet browser? I don't want to admit that Windows ThinPC is a better
kiosk platform than Ubuntu.  But right now it is the only thing we can
get working, and it is easy-peasy, where-as I've wasted close to two
weeks trying to build a viable Ubuntu option, seemingly a simple task,
due to all of these bugs...

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577919

Title:
  chromium-browser fails to start (guest account, OpenVZ): "Failed to
  move to new PID namespace: Operation not permitted"

Status in Chromium Browser:
  Unknown
Status in Light Display Manager:
  Fix Released
Status in OpenVZ kernel (patchset):
  Confirmed
Status in “gdm-guest-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “lightdm-remote-session-freerdp” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “lightdm-remote-session-uccsconfigure” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: chromium-browser

  [Impact]
  Chromium-browser does not launch from guest session.

  Fix by Jamie Strandboge:
  "It would be nice if AppArmor could merge profiles, but we can't yet, so we need to do like you initially did: have two mostly identical profiles. Because the lightdm remote sessions are shipping policy copies, the maintenance cost is getting high. I will be abstracting out the guest rules into abstracations/lightdm and then have a small snippet using a child profile in abstractions/lightdm_chromium-browser. The guest and remote lightdm profiles can just include these and all the policy is in the abstractions. Using a lightdm.d directory is a good idea, but upstream AppArmor is currently discussing how to best handle .d directories like this, and I'd rather not add another one until that discussions is finished."

  [Test Case]
  Login to the guest account after booting in Ubuntu Precise and try to run Chromium-browser.

  [Regression Potential]
  Upstream work on AppArmor was considered here and a child profile was added not touching the other policies so the regression potential is pretty low.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: chromium-browser 5.0.342.9~r43360-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun May  9 19:49:44 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=tr_TR.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser

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