Public bug reported:
I have passwords for a large number of online accounts etc. in small
individual text files. All these text files are stored in a password
protected zip-file. I unpack them using Archive Manager.
(This has given me some problems along the way. For instance Archive
Manager for Ubuntu 20.04 could not read the password protected zip-files
created under Ubuntu 18.04 (or 17.10?), but luckily I still had the
Ubuntu 18.04 boot partition, so I could decode them all, and compress
them in a new zip archive in the Ubuntu 20.04 Archive manger. Very un-
practical!)
The current problem is this:
I installed VMware® Workstation 16 Player and created a Windows 10
Virtual Machine in it. After that, Ubuntu Archive Manager could no
longer decode/decompress the files in my password protected zip-files!
That was VERY shocking! Luckily a had created a drive image backup of
the Ubuntu 20.04 partition shortly before installing VMware® Workstation
16 Player, and restoring that backup solved the problem! But I was VERY
shocked! If I had lost access to all these passwords etc. it would have
been the largest catastrophe of my life.
After that I installed VMware® Workstation 16 Player again and created a
new Win10 VM. This time without having any problems with Archive Manager
decoding my password protected zip-files!
So what did I do the first time, but not the second time?:
1. The first difference I can see, is, that the first time I tried
running "su root" in Terminal, 3 times, giving it my normal Ubuntu login
password. That didn't work... Apparently I have to give a 'superuser'
password that doesn't even exist on my Ubuntu 20.04 system! So in order
to install the VMware® Workstation 16 Player I used "sudo -s" - with my
normal password - instead.
2. Another possible problem could be that I ran these commands in Terminal:
sudo dmidecode -t system | grep Serial
sudo dmidecode -t baseboard | grep Serial
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unetbootin
3. A third possible problem could be that I removed and re-created the
VM twice...
I admit that this is not a very precise bug report. But I think this bug
it VERY serious!
~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
(I learned the strategy of periodically creating drive image backups of the
system boot partition many many years ago, when I used Microsoft Windows,
because it is so extremely full of cra... eeeh bugs... :-)
Generally I restore the drive image backups much more seldomly under Ubuntu
than under Windows!)
PS: I could not report this bug using Alt-F2 directly in Ubuntu.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: archive manager
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"su root" in Terminal seems to corrupt Archive Manager
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