Comments on: How to fix “System program problem detected” error on Ubuntu

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:57:39 +0000

In reply to Sérgio Araújo. that looks like a good solution.

By: Sérgio Araújo

Sérgio Araújo — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 21:19:30 +0000

A shell function

fixissue(){
sudo rm /var/crash/*
sudo sed -i.backup ‘/^enabled/s/1/0/g’ /etc/default/apport
sudo restart apport
} && fixissue

By: anth0ny

anth0ny — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 06:27:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing this enabling me to stop the ‘System program problem detected’ dialogue box continually appearing on start up, even after I’ve clicked on the ‘report’ option.

Thanks also for showing me where the crash reports are.

Any one not familiar with reading files in a terminal can see what ‘program problem’ has been been detected by using the command:
$ less whatever_filename.crash (or $ sudo less whatever_filename.crash – if permission is denied)
is given after running
$ cd /var/crash
$ ls
As given in the first example

$ sudo rm /var/crash/*
Removed the ‘System program problem detected’ dialogue box from further appearing on start up for me.

Thanks again!

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:48:00 +0000

Thanks, fixed the problem on boot.
Ubuntu 19.04 lts

By: Eric Sebasta

Eric Sebasta — Mon, 06 May 2019 23:10:54 +0000

as a developer, this is the single dumbest dialog I have ever seen. No way to view details, tells you nothing about what crashed or what is reported or even offer an option for details like it used to. worthless now.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:33:24 +0000

It works for me on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Bionic Beaver , thank you Sir !

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:28:48 +0000

In reply to Danny. Agree !

By: Natetronn

Natetronn — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 17:42:48 +0000

Reporting bugs is great. But this popup doesn’t include the details like other popups do and we’re left blind not knowing if this is a new error or an old error each and this every…single…time it happens. So, here we all are on this site, hunting down this tip. If a bug doesn’t include details so I can try and address the issue myself then I’m left with what? Yes, ending up here rm-ing stuff. And sure, it’s lazy, I could have read those reports, now that I know where there are for the first time but, really? Get serious. RM they go!

Thanks!

By: mir

mir — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 20:50:31 +0000

Also works on Xubuntu

By: Amin Khattak

Amin Khattak — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:33:25 +0000

but what if the pop up actually reports a software problem . why the system reports the crash if it is not important. why user should get this kind of error in LTS releases. The pop up may indicate to user what is crashed for what reason.

By: Samarth Naik

Samarth Naik — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 05:15:04 +0000

Thanks! Works :)

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:39:35 +0000

In reply to Nikita. Ubuntu is the OS of Google and Facebook and you name it, all the successful websites use Ubuntu. with Ubuntu you can do anything and everything. from complex programming to web crawling to artificial intelligence. but you must learn how to do it. to me its endless ocean. the more you explore the new things you discover. unless you are dum dum. then well, i say, its useless t you. if you like and only rely on Graphical OS like windows. which restricts you to only playing media, word and spread sheets programs. then i say don't use Ubuntu. if you think Ubuntu is crap, then i think there is something wrong with you.

By: aku

aku — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:40:00 +0000

I welcome the released ubuntu 17:04. After the update of ubuntu 16:10, wfi I was not working (offline). I have used various methods including driver downloads but income is the same. Ohh !! .. I was wrong, possible during the update, then I have downloaded the iso file and install it again but the result is still the same.

I was disappointed and now back to a more stable 16:10 ubuntu for me, makes me sick to think about the driver again.

“WIFI TP-LINK”

By: Dream Walker

Dream Walker — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:13:21 +0000

thanks all fri. i’m newbie for linux and face that report problem. Now, I know what to do. Have a good time.

By: Jent

Jent — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 20:03:13 +0000

If you use sudo rm /var/crash*
you may miss any .lock files in directory
Try la or ls-a to see if they are there and directly remove any .lock files with
sudo rm .lock

By: Dolow

Dolow — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:40:59 +0000

In reply to Nikita. Ubuntu is great!

By: Nikita

Nikita — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:56:06 +0000

jeez, ubuntu such a crap

By: troy nall

troy nall — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 01:55:37 +0000

thanks. i really appreciate this.

By: troy nall

troy nall — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 01:53:22 +0000

In reply to Dan Broderick. cd /var/crash you gotta change directory first.

By: Rael

Rael — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:08:32 +0000

Thank you dude helped me a lot