Public bug reported: This occurred on a machine that has been dist-upgraded from breezy to etch and all the points in between, with official sources.
If apport is installed, the /etc/cron.daily/apport script tries to run a find over /var/crash and that directory may not actually be there. This generates irritating emails to root. If the other bits of apport create /var/crash at the time of the first crash after installation, then perhaps the cron.daily needs this patch: --- apport.old 2006-10-10 00:49:47.000000000 +1000 +++ apport 2006-11-13 15:50:17.000000000 +1100 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ #!/bin/sh -e # clean all crash reports which are older than a week. +[ -d /var/crash ] || exit 0 find /var/crash -mindepth 1 -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f find /var/crash -mindepth 1 -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f dpkg -l python-problem-report python-apport-utils apport ii apport 0.28 automatically generate crash reports for deb ii python-apport- 0.28 apport crash report handling functions ii python-problem 0.28 python library to handle problem reports ** Affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- doesn't create /var/crash (?) https://launchpad.net/bugs/71599 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs