Perhaps this is related to apport being disabled? If so, it should probably inform the user about this graphically.
mizar:[~] /usr/share/apport/apport apport (pid 13984) Tue Feb 13 16:02:55 2007: apport is disabled for now until the kernel gets fixed -- Apport not working due to network problem https://launchpad.net/bugs/84992 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
