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how to fix a non-existent executable path causing "ubuntu internal error"?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1203 / 2 Years ago, thu, december 30, 2021, 10:11:03

I keep seeing an "internal error" dialog on startup (please see below for header of .crash file).

Please note, /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM does not exist (since the last couple reboots) and the error still appears.

Here is the output of ls /var/crash:

(base) au@a1:~$ ls -l /var/crash

total 24480

-rw-r----- 1 au       whoopsie 16389469 Jan  2 09:36 _usr_bin_pulseaudio.1000.crash

-rw-rw-r-- 1 au       whoopsie        0 Jan  2 09:36 _usr_bin_pulseaudio.1000.upload

-rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie       37 Jan  2 09:36 _usr_bin_pulseaudio.1000.uploaded

-rw-r----- 1 root     whoopsie  8655015 Jan  8 00:23 _usr_lib_virtualbox_VirtualBoxVM.0.crash

-rw-r--r-- 1 root     whoopsie    10082 Jan  8 00:17 virtualbox-dkms.0.crash

Here is the header (minus the coredump) of /var/crash/_usr_lib_virtualbox_VirtualBoxVM.0.crash:

ProblemType: Crash

Architecture: amd64

Date: Fri Jan  8 00:23:30 2021

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04

ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM

ExecutableTimestamp: 1591443097

ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment w10 --startvm 6bad7132-1231-4cf8-8ac2-5a2a99493c86 --no-startvm-errormsgbox

ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'environ'

ProcMaps: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'maps'

ProcStatus:

 Name:  VirtualBoxVM

 Umask: 0002

 State: S (sleeping)

 Tgid:  3479

 Ngid:  0

 Pid:   3479

 PPid:  1866

 TracerPid: 0

 Uid:   1000    1000    1000    1000

 Gid:   1000    1000    1000    1000

 FDSize:    64

 Groups:    4 24 27 30 46 120 131 132 1000 

 NStgid:    3479

 NSpid: 3479

 NSpgid:    3477

 NSsid: 3138

 VmPeak:      382984 kB

 VmSize:      371348 kB

 VmLck:        0 kB

 VmPin:        0 kB

 VmHWM:    69868 kB

 VmRSS:    68296 kB

 RssAnon:      17056 kB

 RssFile:      51240 kB

 RssShmem:         0 kB

 VmData:       39764 kB

 VmStk:      132 kB

 VmExe:       40 kB

 VmLib:    80832 kB

 VmPTE:      404 kB

 VmSwap:           0 kB

 HugetlbPages:         0 kB

 CoreDumping:   1

 THP_enabled:   1

 Threads:   3

 SigQ:  0/256693

 SigPnd:    0000000000000000

 ShdPnd:    0000000000000000

 SigBlk:    0000000000000000

 SigIgn:    0000000001001000

 SigCgt:    0000000180000000

 CapInh:    0000000000000000

 CapPrm:    0000000000000000

 CapEff:    0000000000000000

 CapBnd:    000000ffffffffff

 CapAmb:    0000000000000000

 NoNewPrivs:    0

 Seccomp:   0

 Speculation_Store_Bypass:  thread vulnerable

 Cpus_allowed:  ffffffff

 Cpus_allowed_list: 0-31

 Mems_allowed:  00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000001

 Mems_allowed_list: 0

 voluntary_ctxt_switches:   1149

 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:    65

Signal: 6

Uname: Linux 5.8.0-36-generic x86_64

UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo

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answered 2 Years ago fenddy · Accepted Answer

I would remove the files:

sudo rm /var/crash/_usr_lib_virtualbox_VirtualBoxVM.0.crash

sudo rm /var/crash/virtualbox-dkms.0.crash

See this article for more background:

https://itsfoss.com/how-to-fix-system-program-problem-detected-ubuntu/

Edit:

Worth noting, I would not advocate for disabling Apport, like the author of the article does. In my experience cleaning out /var/crash/ when these popups start to come up on every reboot is sufficient and convenient enough.