How To Disable, Stop Apport Error Reporting
Phyllis Sterlin
The service will silently stop without giving any notification. Now your system will not send any error reports during the current log in section. The service will, however, start again when you boot your system next time.
Now you have a way out of disabling unwanted error pop-ups, which might otherwise distract you from the actual task at hand. It also saves system resources that it was previously using to start the Apport service, check for bugs and crashes, and then for the UI notifications and further reporting procedures.
If application crashes are recurring, frequent error reporting alerts can be disturbing. Or you may be worried that Apport can collect and upload any sensitive information of your Ubuntu system. Whatever the reason is, you may want to disable Apport's error reporting feature.
The Apport system creates crash report files in the /var/crash directory. These crash report files cause an error message to appear every time Ubuntu boots. After removing all the crash report files, the error message should stop popping up. However if a new crash takes place then it will appear again in future.
One caveat: it appears that Apport still tries to upload these crashes to the Ubuntu bug tracker if the user leaves the 'Send error report' checkbox checked; this may be a problem if you are working on proprietary code, etc. I'm looking for more info on this; it seems that /etc/apport/crashdb.conf may control where the crash reports get sent.
Apport is the error reporting service for Ubuntu. Most of the errors it pops up with are pretty minor, and Canonical knows about them by now anyway. You can either get rid of it entirely or just disable it. Instructions from here.
PS: Apport utility may be really annoying in some cases but it really helps developers to improve ubuntu. If you have disabled apport and if you experience an error which no one yet encountered with, developers won't ever know the error and will never be fixed.
How to disable or enable automatic error reporting in Ubuntu Linux Systems. An easy way to turn off Apport Error Reporting, Internal System Error reporting in Ubuntu. Disabling it will get rid of Internal System Error Apport pop-ups in Ubuntu system.
The Apport service is in running or active state by default when you install Ubuntu 18.04. You can stop this service by running the following command as sudo:
$ sudo service apport stop
Stop Apport: Once you stop the Apport, your system will not send any error reports during the current log in section. Note that the service will silently stop without giving any notification and the Apport service will, however, start again on the next system boot.
Sometimes while using Ubuntu, you may get some error popups that asks you to report problems. These errors are really very annoying.In other to disable these error reporting, you can do either of the two things.
Sorry, Ubuntu has experienced an internal error is the apport that will further open a web browser and then you can file a bug report by logging or creating an account with Launchpad. You see, it is a complicated procedure which will take around four steps to complete.
If you disable apport, this doesn't prevent core dump generation upon process termination. Instead, it simply stops apport. The system will then revert to its default behavior by generating core dumps itself. If you run the same cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern after apport is stopped, you'll see the following default system behavior.
Apport can be stopped and disabled the same as any other service. Use the sudo systemctl stop apport command and the sudo systemctl disable apport command to stop the service, and then disable it to prevent it from being restarted.
whoopsie.service is the Ubuntu error reporting service. It collects crash reports and sends them to You may safely disable it, or you can remove it permanently by uninstalling apport.
You mentioned in your original post that you ssh'd in to the system to start vnc. Not sure if this is a security pre-caution or just a method to start vnc, but with xrdp it is run as a service and you wouldn't need to pre-connect to start it up. If however, it is a security precaution, you can use the systemctl commands to enable and disable, and/or start and stop as required.
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