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This started to happen immediately after I had rebooted the first time after doing a system upgrade to 12.04 from 11.10. It first starts with a dialogue that says "System program problem detected". Then when I try to hit 'report problem' not much happens. I am led through a dialogue that always ends up the problem cannot be solved.

I am running a MacBook1,1

I am aware this is not a lot of information, however I'm not sure which information I need to publish and how should I obtain it to debug this problem.

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+1―Same thing happens on my Z51WG/B, which has Intel and NVidia GPUs. – Andy E May 8 '12 at 12:23
I would like to give more debug/system-info, so if anybody could give me some directions... Generally, when I click the message away (by hitting cancel), I can continue working without any problem though... – grrrbytes May 8 '12 at 18:03
This may be related: askubuntu.com/questions/43103/… – user61825 May 8 '12 at 22:24
The symptoms are the same, however: I'm not running it in Turkish, but in English... – grrrbytes May 9 '12 at 3:46
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If you just get error messages without real problem, you can remove the package apport to get rid of the messages. – jP_wanN May 10 '12 at 6:50
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Can you try this:

sudo rm /var/crash/*

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Added detail needed: This will remove any old crashes, that might still be reported (in error). After a reboot/re-starting, any further pop-ups still need to be investigated. – david6 Jun 10 '12 at 4:40
This worked for me-- Even after rebooting.. Albeit, the problem returned a month or so later. – rm-vanda Jun 25 '12 at 17:47
This worked for me too, and it also started recurring some time later. Now it's popping up many times a day. – oldmankit Aug 22 '12 at 6:28
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I have had the same problem. As it turns out, Ubuntu has an error reporting system called "apport", which has been deactivated in stabled releases of Ubuntu until 12.04. Manuel Jose has made an excellent quick-guide how to turn off the error reporting in apport - see: http://www.techdrivein.com/2012/08/how-to-disable-system-program-problem.html

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Open your terminal and type:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/apport and change the text "enabled=1" to "enabled-0" in. Then, save and exit.

To solve this problem, you can watch this YouTube video.

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