Public bug reported:

Today I installed a mainline kernel for testing an unrelated bug and
rebooted.   On login apport popped up a non-localized error dialog.
About a minute or two later apport popped up a second error dialog, this
time it was translated to my desktop language (Lithuanian).

These dialogs are elusive: I cannot focus them with Alt-Tab, and they
don't show up in GNOME Shell's Overview.  If I open a large window (such
as a maximized web browser), I can easily forget about them, because
there's practically no way to focus them, short of moving all the other
windows to a different workspace.

They're also annoyingly useless: when I click 'Report a problem...', I'm
prompted for my password (once for each dialog).  And then nothing
happens at all.

Also, I see only one recent crash report in /var/crash, which means I'm
getting two popups for a single crash:

    $ LC_ALL=C ls -lrt /var/crash
    total 756
    -rw-r----- 1 root     whoopsie 766830 Jan  7 20:23 
susres.2014-01-07_20:22:00.659707.crash
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root     whoopsie      0 Jan  7 20:24 
susres.2014-01-07_20:22:00.659707.upload
    -rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie      0 Jan  8 13:09 
susres.2014-01-07_20:22:00.659707.uploaded
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root     whoopsie   2564 Jan 10 12:41 virtualbox-dkms.0.crash

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: apport 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-031300rc7-generic x86_64
ApportLog:
 
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
 640:0:114:766830:2014-01-07 20:23:44.088550329 +0200:2014-01-10 
13:06:06.403893657 +0200:/var/crash/susres.2014-01-07_20:22:00.659707.crash
 644:0:114:0:2014-01-07 20:24:06.096549724 +0200:2014-01-07 20:24:06.096549724 
+0200:/var/crash/susres.2014-01-07_20:22:00.659707.upload
 644:0:114:2564:2014-01-10 12:41:25.605082972 +0200:2014-01-10 
13:06:12.583893804 +0200:/var/crash/virtualbox-dkms.0.crash
 600:105:114:0:2014-01-08 13:09:13.535554185 +0200:2014-01-08 
13:09:13.535554185 +0200:/var/crash/susres.2014-01-07_20:22:00.659707.uploaded
Date: Fri Jan 10 13:52:26 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-25 (533 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 
(20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (84 days ago)

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy

** Attachment added: "screenshot of the two popups"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1267823/+attachment/3945305/+files/Ekrano%20nuotrauka%20i%C5%A1%202014-01-10%2012%3A53%3A35.png

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