Ubuntu: System Program Problem detected

[gjacobse]

Here of late, when I boot, I get this pop up.

System is updated and I don't recall any other errors during use.

[scottalanmiller]

If you report problem, does it tell you what the problem was?

[gjacobse]

@scottalanmiller

It does not.

[scottalanmiller]

Not much to tell then. That could be literally anything.

[scottalanmiller]

That's a desktop pop up, but Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Why the combination of old Ubuntu, but a desktop?

[gjacobse]

Found this thread - and looked in the /var/crash folder

(posting from two machines)

ls -l /var/crash
total 3200
-rw-r----- 1 gjacob whoopsie 2024430 Feb 12 12:45 _usr_bin_nautilus.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 gdm    whoopsie 1247226 Feb 10 15:08 _usr_lib_speech-dispatcher-modules_sd_espeak-ng.121.crash

[gjacobse]

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu: System Program Problem detected:

That's a desktop pop up, but Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Why the combination of old Ubuntu, but a desktop?

Why 18.04 -

Well,.. very long obtuse story cut short. having re-installed Ubuntu a time or two due to software / boot issues, I hadn't upgraded to 'save time and stress.' I felt not push to upgrade to 18.10 if I had to yet again kill and install the system. However, things appear stable - so upgrading currently.

I do see on the article, that the crashes could be past - and as such, i can delete the files (several days old) and move on.