One recurring problem is the popup telling me that a "System Program Problem Detected". This popup gives no real information on what has happened, and although it does offer to 'report the problem' there is no real resolution of the issue(s) that may have caused the error. And ignoring the problem, and proceeding to use the system seems to cause no real problems either.
The catch is that, although this problem was intermittent at first, the frequency of these events have steadily increased to the point that they are occurring almost daily. Ultimately it was time to put a little Google-Fu to use to see what can be done to address the current state of affairs.
From what I can tell, this issue seems to be caused by an application caused apport, which *should* be disabled in a stable, LTS version of Ubuntu, but does apparently somehow get itself enabled anyway. A quick check on my system determined that this was indeed the case. It only took a quick edit of the appropriate control file to set things right.
In a terminal window execute the following command.
sudo nano /etc/default/apport
Look for the line that says enabled= and make sure it is set to:
enabled=0
Save the file, and reboot. This *should* solve the recurring 'System Program Problem Detected' error message.
Many thanks to Manuel Jose at the Tech Drive-In for this solution!
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