{"id":5820,"date":"2016-04-24T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2016-04-24T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T10:26:37","slug":"disable-error-reporting-ubuntu-1604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/04\/disable-error-reporting-ubuntu-1604\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Error Reporting in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/error-reporting-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/error-reporting-icon.png\" alt=\"disable error reporting\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5821\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the new released Ubuntu 16.04 desktop, you may get a few error popups that asks you to report problems. Some popups has already been reported so you may want to disable these error popups before they are fixed by upstream.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/error-report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/error-report.jpg\" alt=\"Ubuntu Error Popups\" width=\"568\" height=\"221\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/error-report.jpg 568w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/error-report-450x175.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To do so, you can either temporarily stop the Apport service on current boot, or manually edit the config file to disable error reporting system permanently<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To stop the Apport service, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo service apport stop<\/pre>\n<p>Type in password when it asks and hit Enter. There&#8217;s no visual feedback while typing your password.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/stop-apport-service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/stop-apport-service-600x113.jpg\" alt=\"stop-apport-service\" width=\"600\" height=\"113\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/stop-apport-service-600x113.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/stop-apport-service-450x85.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/stop-apport-service.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> To disable the apport system so you&#8217;ll never see the error popups, run command to edit config file:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo gedit \/etc\/default\/apport<\/pre>\n<p>When the file opens, change the value to 0 and save it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/disable-error-report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/disable-error-report-600x244.jpg\" alt=\"disable-error-report\" width=\"600\" height=\"244\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/disable-error-report-600x244.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/disable-error-report-450x183.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/disable-error-report.jpg 785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the new released Ubuntu 16.04 desktop, you may get a few error popups that asks you to report problems. Some popups has already been reported so you may want to disable these error popups before they are fixed by upstream. To do so, you can either temporarily stop the Apport service on current boot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[650,1327],"class_list":["post-5820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-error-reporting","tag-ubuntu-16-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}