Ubuntu – “System program problem detected” with apport-gpu-error-intel.py

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My Ubuntu 12.10 was working fine, until a week ago when a software update was installed.
Now, every two minutes, the computer hangs for a couple of seconds, and then an error message pops up saying "System program problem detected." Upon click "Show details", it shows that this is a problem with a file named apport-gpu-error-intel.py in /usr/share/apport/. How can I stop this from happening?

Best Answer

I've recently had the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04LTS. It appears this confirmed regression bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1140716 affecting Sandy Bridge Intel Processors (e.g. my i5-2410M with onboard-graphics).

I used the synaptic packager manager to remove the package xserver-xorg-core-lts-quantal and install the package xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.12.

Also removed xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-quantal and installed xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.3.

So far, this workaround seems to have solved the problem.

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