Want to get rid of "System program problem detected" in ubuntu

What is this post is all about?

Well those who are familiar with Ubuntu Linux operating system might have encountered this problem, this alert message normally appears at start up of the system. What is this error message and what is it trying to convey?

The answer is pretty simple, When ever we try to install something and during installation if there is some breakage in the package this alert message pops up every time you login to the system.

Some people really do not care about such pops up where as for some it is a serious issue...

Before we correct this pop up problem, let us understand why this happens.

As I said earlier this problem happens due to some broken packages available in the system, but how did I get those broken packages well there could be lot of reasons, some of them are mentioned below...

• When the supporting packages are not available.
• assuming you are trying to install jenkins package in your system, the package manager tries to find all its supporting packages online, in case the package manager find all it needs to install jenkins the installation process goes fine, if not it would end up as an error... this would results in broken packages..

• When your internet is broken in the middle of the installation process.
• During the process of installation of a package and when the package manager finds all the supporting packages it needs to install the actual package, the process continues as long as your internet connection is stable, if not you would encounter this from ubuntu.

What I mentioned above are some of the reasons... there could be other reasons contributing to this alert message as well.

Now the time has come to clear this alert message from the system, when ever such broken package or crash situation happens, ubuntu logs the situation in the folder /var/crash

Just like the entries in the image given below....

The simple solution to get rid of this problem is to delete all the entries you find in the folder by using the command below..

> rm /var/crash/*

What we have discussed here is a temporary solution, well I prefer to stick to the temporary solution as far as this error is concerned because if any such situation happens in future... it would help us to track the problem for further investigation.

Well that is it and hope you have found the solution here for your problem.

Thanks.