[xubuntu] system program problem detected on startup ...

[dbee]

Searched this forum and read some online tutorials but can't seem to get rid of this issue on xubuntu (latest) on startup.

I get a modal box on startup with 'system program problem detected'.

Online tutorial said it was a crash issue and that i should delete /var/crash/*. Thing is though, /var/crash is an empty directory on my system.

Had a look at syslog, can't find anything useful in there...

System froze a while back and i had to power off. Probably an issue with that crash i'd imagine.

[ActionParsnip]

Does the system work, despite the message ?

[T6&sfpER35%]

what does

ls -l /var/crash/

show ?

[dbee]

system works fine ...

dara@dara-HP-Stream-Laptop-11-y0XX:~$ ls -l /var/crash
total 0

[T6&sfpER35%]

weird , "system program problem detected" is just a notification of a crash in the system...but your crash log shows nothing.
i'm afraid i can't contribute to this thread anymore ,sorry .
will keep en eye on this one to see the solution lol

[dbee]

so this morning when i logged on. The message didn't show up.

it's possible that i deleted the crash log unintentionally yesterday and that fixed it.

Or it might be a case of xubuntu giveth, xubuntu taketh away. Who knows.

I'm going to mark this thread as solved since deleting the crash log is probably the solution.

dara@dara-HP-Stream-Laptop-11-y0XX:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/crash/*

Also does anyone else take precautions when working with rm -rf ? I usually take an rm in stages to prevent a slip of the finger deleting something important on my system...

so basically i type

-rf /mydir/myfile

then i finish it off with an rm

rm -rf /mydir/myfile

this goes double when I'm working with the match all * operator.

is this just a me thing or does anyone else do this as well?