How do I get rid of frequent error messages?

Question

I am sometimes getting error messages like the ones below.

System program problem

internal error

As I understand they are from some kind of debugging mode in the beta which I sometimes install. I have no problem with them in the beta. If I install it I do because I want to report bugs. But if I switch to productivity I don't want them. Until 12.10 they stopped when the final was released and I upgraded, but not this time.

I'm not experiencing anything not working so the messages just annoy me by now. Can anyone tell me how to disable them?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Inspired by the answer by @ovc I looked up how to disable apport and found this question.

I had to edit /etc/default/apport and change

enabled=1

to

enabled=0

This way it is not started at boot. For not having to reboot simply stop the service with

sudo service apport stop

Let's see if the messages disappear now :-)

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Jan 24 '13 at 18:08

André Stannek

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '13 at 10:55

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The thing which creates these error messages, as far as I know, is called Apport. You may try uninstalling that.

answered Jan 22 '13 at 10:55

ooa

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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As pointed out by Robie Basak I was able to find my answer in context of another question. Here is the essential part from that answer:

Go to Settings...Privacy...
And in the Diagnostics Tab, uncheck the Send Error Reports to Canonical option:

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Jan 22 '13 at 11:10

André Stannek

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How do I get rid of frequent error messages?

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