One of my Ubuntu systems would pop up the following message multiple times after logging in:
System program problem detected
Do you want to report the problem now?
It was really annoying as simply closing the messages would cause them to return after a reboot.
This was happening due to a number of files in the /var/crash/ directory. After removing these, the problem went away. I did so from the command line as follows:
[chris@home ~]$ sudo rm /var/crash/*
[chris@home ~]$
While the idea of a crash report helping fix problems is nice, I really question whether they are that valuable. Personally, I’d rather never have to deal with them.
To ensure that I never have to deal with them again, I disabled the apport service that is responsible for generating these crash reports.
To disable the service, first edit the /etc/default/apport file:
[chris@home ~]$ gksu gedit /etc/default/apport
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=1
Then change enabled=1 to enabled=0:
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0
Save and close the file.
Finally, stop the still-running apport service:
[chris@home ~]$ sudo stop apport
apport stop/waiting
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