Switchboard stopped working

[sonay]

It doesn't start anymore. When started from the terminal, the problem persists with the following log:

[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 22:16:58.849515] switchboard-app.vala:501: Welcome to System Settings
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 22:16:58.849594] switchboard-app.vala:502: Version: 0.9
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 22:16:58.849656] switchboard-app.vala:503: Report any issues/bugs you mind find to lp:switchboard
[_LOG_LEVEL_WARN 22:16:58.903064] [Gtk] Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1273:25: Failed to import: Error opening file: No such file or directory
[_LOG_LEVEL_WARN 22:16:58.920327] switchboard-app.vala:512: Unknown option --version
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 22:16:58.922764] Application.vala:71: Switchboard version: 0.9
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 22:16:58.922835] Application.vala:73: Kernel version: 3.2.0-27-generic
[_LOG_LEVEL_FATAL 22:16:58.925953] [GLib] g_strrstr: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed
[_LOG_LEVEL_FATAL 22:16:58.925998] Switchboard will not function properly.
[_LOG_LEVEL_FATAL 22:16:59.010103] [GLib-GIO] This application can not open files.
[_LOG_LEVEL_FATAL 22:16:59.010163] Switchboard will not function properly.
[_LOG_LEVEL_WARN 22:16:59.021217] [Gdk] The program 'switchboard' received an X Window System error.This probably reflects a bug in the program.The error was 'GLXBadRenderRequest'. (Details: serial 410 error_code 177 request_code 154 minor_code 1) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

If this information is not sufficient, let me know how to collect more.

[sonay (deserialkiller)]

Looks like the issue was with AMD propietary drivers, using open source AMD drivers fixed the issue

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

elementary OS blacklists proprietary AMD drivers because there is nothing we can do about this and similar bugs. Hopefully AMD improves or open sources their drivers soon.