[xubuntu-users] "System program problem detected"

[Eric Christopherson]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 01:18:07AM -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > Lately I've been getting this strange dialog saying
> > 
> >     System program problem detected
> > 
> >     Do you want to report the problem now?
> > 
> >     [Cancel] [Report problem...]
> > 
> > every time I start my Xubuntu GUI session. I actually get at least two
> > instances of this popup; one is in the top left (just under the top
> > bar) and the other's in the center. When I click to send the report,
> > it tells me that it's a problem installing the nvidia-331 package. I
> > do have the closed-source Nvidia driver, but this keeps coming up when
> > I'm not trying to upgrade. Is this just left over from some time when
> > I tried to update the driver in the past?
> > 
> Yes, I've seen this, it's a left over error that doesn't get cleared.
> 
> If you clear any files in /var/crash it should go away.
> 
>     sudo rm /var/crash/*

Interestingly, I don't have that directory. Is it new in 14.10 or 15.x?

-- 
        Eric Christopherson