juju-quickstart fires up w3m on a server machine, which is not useful

Bug #1292028 reported by Robie Basak
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juju-quickstart
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

When testing juju-quickstart, I used an Ubuntu cloud image. I expected it to finish by giving me a URL to view the Juju GUI, or something like that. Instead, it fired up w3m, which isn't capable of accessing the Juju GUI anyway. Quitting w3m didn't give me a useful URL to access, either.

I am used to trying things out on test VMs, instead of letting them trample on my main desktop machine.

Tools like ubuntu-bug seem to be able to detect this situation, and give me a URL to visit from an alternate machine. It would be nice if juju-quickstart can also do this.

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Francesco Banconi (frankban) wrote :

We should check if there is an X session available and assume --no-browser if that's not the case.
I agree it does not make sense to open the GUI (a js app) using a term browser.

Changed in juju-quickstart:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Francesco Banconi (frankban) wrote :

In the meanwhile it is possible to prevent the browser from opening by starting quickstart with --no-browser.
The GUI URL is properly displayed in the quickstart output.

Changed in juju-quickstart:
importance: Medium → Low
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