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I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my HP Pavilion dm4 laptop the other day and everything was working fine until yesterday. I started up my laptop, but for some reason, at the login screen, I didn't see my wallpaper so I immediately knew something was wrong. When I login, it flashes the "System program problem detected" in the top right corner while the rest of the screen is black. I believe this is the same problem described in this thread, but no solution is working for my laptop.

Hopefully someone will reply to me soon, I have homework I need to complete...

Thank You in advance

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shokoah
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Can you open the terminal? (ctrl - alt - t) If so, try: 

sudo rm /var/crash/*

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2176406 I think this was the same problem.

wjandrea
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NicoD
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Recover with help of Ubuntu Updates

Hi, try following steps. (Note:Connect to internet before you can do anything)

  • After login, press CTRL+ALT+F1
  • Now, you need to provide username and password for accessing the terminal

  • Run this command first:

    sudo apt-get update

  • Then run this command after it:

    sudo apt-get upgrade

  • Wait everything to done. Then restart your system with this command:

    shutdown -r 0

After restarting, your computer or Ubuntu system should be recovered. Remember that, the system packages will be updates as we run update and upgrade commands.

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Error still occuring, although no errors occured during update or upgrade.. However, I did notice there were two differing packages offered while using update. I am attempting to isolate the reason why, because as far as I know.. this is supposed to be a stable release of Ubuntu.

John
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