apportcheckresume recurring error and gnome shell fixations

Solution 1:

So far the only thing that has actually worked is:

1. Purge the apport program with its configuration

   sudo apt-get purge apport
   

2. Remove packages that are no longer needed (ex. auto-installed dependencies of apport)

   sudo apt-get autoremove
   

3. Clean APT cache from old packages

   sudo apt-get clean
   

4. Install back apport

   sudo apt-get install apport
   

Hopefully that will work for you.

I think the problem for me at least is that I originally had Unity but have switched to Xubuntu. So I had several apparently orphaned packages that where still being used by apport, apport-gtk, etc. Removing these packages and purging the their config files, then reinstalling and configured just the needed Xubuntu apport packages. Example: I did not reinstall apport-gtk.

Solution 2:

Try the following commands:

sudo apt-get purge apport
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install apport

The commands will

• remove the apport program
• remove packages that are no longer needed (ex. dependencies of apport)
• remove all packages files saved in the cache
• (re)install apport

More details on apt-get can be found in the AptGet HowTo guide.