[Bug 794757] Re: Mysterious "System program problem detected" prompt

[ken brockman]

Me too! Just yesterday I had gotten the same odd and vague msg. box popping up asking for my password. I've had 12.04 running since it had been released and had never seen this one prior to then. I WAS NOT going to insert my password into this, uhm thing?
I have had numerous error msgs. since updating to 12.04 from 11.04, but always after an actual crash and always explained what app was requesting to be reported. With this one, there seems to be no problems, that i can see anyway, and if memory serves i had NEVER been asked for my password?

I rebooted today after getting the same msg once again. I'll wait and
see if it rears it's ugly head again.

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Title:
  Mysterious "System program problem detected" prompt

Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  A unsolicited, untitled window recently appeared that contained only
  the following text:

      System program problem detected
      Do you want to report the problem now?

      [ Cancel ] [ Report problem... ]

  There are two problems with this:

  1) I have no idea what "system program problem" this is referring to,
  so I have no way of knowing yet whether or not I want to report it. My
  only rational option is to choose "Cancel."

  2) I have no indication of what program is generating this prompt.
  Since it reappeared again later, though, I gave in to curiosity and
  clicked "Report problem," hoping that it might reveal more information
  about the "system program problem." Instead of more information,
  however, I was presented with a password prompt. I am NOT going to
  grant administrative privileges to an unidentified program. Once
  again, my only rational option is to choose "Cancel."

  Users at Ask Ubuntu [1] helped me identify the mystery prompt as
  belonging to Apport.

  Apport needs to identify itself before requesting elevated privileges.

  [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/47675/why-should-i-trust-this

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker#os-crash>

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: apport 1.20.1-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  ApportLog:
   ERROR: apport (pid 13522) Tue Jun  7 10:13:17 2011: called for pid 12778, signal 11
   ERROR: apport (pid 13522) Tue Jun  7 10:13:17 2011: executable: /usr/bin/Xorg (command line "/usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/authority/0 -nolisten tcp vt2")
   ERROR: apport (pid 13522) Tue Jun  7 10:13:18 2011: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_Xorg.0.crash
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashReports:
   600:1000:1000:546955:2011-06-07 11:51:12.501300000 -0700:2011-06-07 11:51:13.501300000 -0700:/var/crash/_usr_bin_update-notifier.1000.crash
   600:0:0:635299:2011-06-07 10:13:18.563455402 -0700:2011-06-07 10:13:17.292818549 -0700:/var/crash/_usr_bin_Xorg.0.crash
   600:1000:1000:232476:2011-06-05 21:03:36.352573000 -0700:2011-06-05 21:03:37.352573000 -0700:/var/crash/_usr_lib_telepathy_telepathy-salut.1000.crash
  Date: Wed Jun  8 13:30:15 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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