I was several minutes into a phonecall with my ISP about the internet connection not working (turn off/on, check cables, etc).
With the ‘Server not found’ page showing on Firefox they asked me to try again but before I could up popped:
System program problem detected
Unable to use Firefox and with the soothing sounds of a call-centre in me ear I clicked on ‘Report problem’
Up next was:
Please enter your password to
access problem reports of system
programs
I clicked on ‘Details’ which mentioned:
polkit.subject-pid
polkit.caller-pid
Action: com.ubuntu.apport.apport-gtk-root
Vendor: Apport
I entered my password and clicked ‘Authenticate’ which lead to this:
Sorry, Ubuntu 16.04 has experienced an internal error
Here’s some of the details:
ExecutablePath
/usr/sbin/ntpd
Package
ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5
ProblemType
Crash
Title
ntpd crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
Further down it said:
NtpStatus
ntpq: read: Connection refused
I ticked ‘Send an error report to help fix this problem’ and clicked ‘continue’
Because I didn’t have access to the web and feeling rushed by the ISP on the phone I didn’t have a clue what has happened or what I’ve done. Can someone enlighten me?