apportcheckresume recurring error and gnome shell fixations

Question

Since installing Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome remix I encounter unpredictable and unwanted behavior of my system.

Almost after each resume from suspend (or even after unlocking the screen after it goes blank) I get apportcheckresume error and message Ubuntu 12.10 has encountered an internal error. Many times the system event wont resume and I need to restart it. Other times log in screen is not visible, the screen is blank and i have to write my password in blanco.

Sometimes additional things also happen - textures get messed up and background and windows get distorted by horizontal lines

Sorry I can't localize the log file for the errors. My system specification:

Ubuntu 12.10 3.5.0-19-generic Gnome 3.6 Thinkpad T400 Graphics Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P8600

Answer 1

So far the only thing that has actually worked is:

1. Purge the apport program with its configuration

   sudo apt-get purge apport
   

2. Remove packages that are no longer needed (ex. auto-installed dependencies of apport)

   sudo apt-get autoremove
   

3. Clean APT cache from old packages

   sudo apt-get clean
   

4. Install back apport

   sudo apt-get install apport
   

Hopefully that will work for you.

I think the problem for me at least is that I originally had Unity but have switched to Xubuntu. So I had several apparently orphaned packages that where still being used by apport, apport-gtk, etc. Removing these packages and purging the their config files, then reinstalling and configured just the needed Xubuntu apport packages. Example: I did not reinstall apport-gtk.

Answer 2

Try the following commands:

sudo apt-get purge apport
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install apport

The commands will

• remove the apport program
• remove packages that are no longer needed (ex. dependencies of apport)
• remove all packages files saved in the cache
• (re)install apport

More details on apt-get can be found in the AptGet HowTo guide.

Answer 3

I had the exact same issues.

At least in my case it was conflicting extensions. If you have any of the gnome-extensions installed try deactivating them. Once I did this I stopped having troubles.