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

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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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:
  Confirmed

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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