"System program problem detected" what to do?

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:35:56 -0500, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:11?AM Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Every time I log in to the desktop on my newly installed Ubuntu 24.04.1 server
>> (I have installed the MATE desktop) I am greeted with a pop-up dialog saying:
>>
>> System program problem detected
>> Do you want to report the problem now?
>>
>> But it does not matter that I report it, next time I log on to the desktop the
>> same happens over and over!
>
>It sounds like the bug was not fixed in the days between reports.
>
>> What is the real problem here?
>>
>> Note that the dialog does NOT offer a way to see what was detected, the only
>> possible actions are Report or Cancel.
>
>Check /var/crash/.
>

$ ls -la /var/crash/
total 9908
drwxrwsrwt  2 root    whoopsie    4096 2025-02-20 07:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root    root        4096 2025-01-30 19:25 ..
-rw-r-----  1 bosse   whoopsie 1862965 2025-02-14 00:17
_usr_bin_mate-power-manager.1000.crash
-rw-r-----  1 lightdm whoopsie 8271593 2025-02-15 10:27
_usr_bin_onboard.117.crash

Notice the size of these files!
The first file starts like this:

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Fri Feb 14 00:17:03 2025
Dependencies:
 adduser 3.137ubuntu1
 adwaita-icon-theme 46.0-1
 alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-2
 alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.10-1ubuntu5.4

And the second starts in the same way but is a lot bigger


>> How can I stop this from happening?
>
>Since this is a server, disable the desktop:
>
>    systemctl set-default multi-user.target
>
>Jeff

I have added/enabled the desktop in order to not have to dual boot into a
desktop machine just to get hold of gparted for disk management...

On the previous server device I had a regular Ubuntu dualbooting with the server
but it had all kinds of problems described in earlier threads here so I decided
to only have a single operating system on this new server.

And absolutely no trace of any Windows involvement, so I selected an ASUS NUC13
device...

All other PC:s seem to be infected by/needing Windows... :(


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden