[Bug 1831973] [NEW] every boot mysterious system program crash detected without crash entry, report now does nothing

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Public bug reported:

Every boot after a short delay a dialog pops up "System program problem
detected" (in German: "Es wurde ein Problem mit einer Systemanwendung
festgestellt. Möchten Sie das Problem jetzt melden?"). The dialog is
linked to the update-notifier application and PID. Pressing "Cancel" or
"Report problem" (Problem melden) does nothing. There is not entry in
/var/crash. The update-notifier process keeps on running, and new
updates are reported.

I did already: remove and purge update-notifier (and update-manager and
do-release-upgrade-gtk), then this dialog does not happen. Reinstalling
update-manager (and update-notifier and do-release-upgrade-gtk) brings
back this mysterious crash dialog. I see no way to track this bug down
further, as there is not crash entry, and the journal shows no entry for
update-notifier.

System is Bionic Beaver 18.04.2 LTS , update-notifier is version
3.192.1.5, kernel is 4.18.0-21-generic i686.

There is no visible defect, just the annoyance of a seemingly
superfluous error dialog.

** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: regression-update

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Title:
  every boot mysterious system program crash detected without crash
  entry, report now does nothing

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Every boot after a short delay a dialog pops up "System program
  problem detected" (in German: "Es wurde ein Problem mit einer
  Systemanwendung festgestellt. Möchten Sie das Problem jetzt melden?").
  The dialog is linked to the update-notifier application and PID.
  Pressing "Cancel" or "Report problem" (Problem melden) does nothing.
  There is not entry in /var/crash. The update-notifier process keeps on
  running, and new updates are reported.

  I did already: remove and purge update-notifier (and update-manager
  and do-release-upgrade-gtk), then this dialog does not happen.
  Reinstalling update-manager (and update-notifier and do-release-
  upgrade-gtk) brings back this mysterious crash dialog. I see no way to
  track this bug down further, as there is not crash entry, and the
  journal shows no entry for update-notifier.

  System is Bionic Beaver 18.04.2 LTS , update-notifier is version
  3.192.1.5, kernel is 4.18.0-21-generic i686.

  There is no visible defect, just the annoyance of a seemingly
  superfluous error dialog.

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