Distribution upgrade wrongly installs system settings for mobile on PC

[Wise Melon]

HOW TO REPRODUCE
- Upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10.
- In the Unity dash, search for the phrase "system settings".

EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR
- The desktop system settings to appear.

REAL BEHAVIOUR
- Also appears the system settings for the phablet (http://tinyurl.com/qdra33k), due to the "ubuntu-system-settings" package being wrongly installed during distribution upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jan 11 12:24:14 2015
DistUpgraded: 2014-12-13 16:39:34,851 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: utopic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5002]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-06 (36 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
MachineType: LENOVO 62742SG
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-28-generic root=UUID=3883b8c8-34cb-4ec2-8834-fe85bbd10f52 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-12-13 (28 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/15/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: H5ET69WW (1.12 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 62742SG
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Win8 Pro DPK IPG
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrH5ET69WW(1.12):bd11/15/2012:svnLENOVO:pn62742SG:pvrLenovoB590:rvnLENOVO:rn62742SG:rvrWin8ProDPKIPG:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 62742SG
dmi.product.version: Lenovo B590
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12+14.10.20140918-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.56-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.3.0-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.3.0-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Sun Jan 11 11:04:24 2015
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 827
 vendor LGD
xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1.2

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Does removing the "gnome-control-center" package solve the problem?

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

The "gnome-control-center" package does not seem to be installed although there are some folders to do with it on my system, but I only know that from searching in "Computer" for "gnome-control-center".

When typing it in in command-line I get this response (without double-quotes):
"
The program 'gnome-control-center' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center
"

When searching for "gnome-control-center" in "Computer" these are the result: gnome-control-center_search_results.bmp

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

Also, when I go into the dash and search for "System Settings" and then I right-click on the one that is not meant to be there, I get a screenshot now of the proper one, but when I open it I still get the phone settings (as shown in System_Settings_Phone.bmp ). So when I right-click on it now it looks like this: System_Settings_New_Details.bmp

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

@ Nikita Yerenkov-Scott:

This bug happened to me to and I know that the fix for this bug is removing certain package, but I don't remember what it was. I'm going to ask the bug squat if they know.

Regards.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

@ Nikita Yerenkov-Scott:

Colin Law said:
> ubuntu-system-settings? Try
> apt-cache policy ubuntu-system-settings
> to see if it has been accidentally installed.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes it obviously has been installed somehow (although not by me so there must be a bug somewhere) as this was the output for that command:

ubuntu-system-settings:
  Installed: 0.3+14.10.20141022-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.3+14.10.20141022-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3+14.10.20141022-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

apt-cache rdepends ubuntu-system-settings
will show a list of packages you may have installed that brought it in, fr example if you has tried with unity-desktop-next

It is benign to have it installed and you could remove it if you want.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

Running this command "apt-cache rdepends ubuntu-system-settings" gave this output:

ubuntu-system-settings
Reverse Depends:
  ubuntu-system-settings-wizard:i386
  ubuntu-system-settings-wizard:i386
  ubuntu-system-settings:i386
  ubuntu-touch
  ubuntu-system-settings-wizard
  ubuntu-system-settings-wizard
  ubuntu-system-settings-wizard
  ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts
  ubuntu-system-settings-autopilot
  ubuntu-desktop-next
  accountsservice-ubuntu-touch-schemas
  accountsservice-ubuntu-touch-schemas
  accountsservice-ubuntu-schemas
  accountsservice-ubuntu-schemas
 |indicator-sound
 |indicator-power
  indicator-datetime
  indicator-bluetooth
  indicator-bluetooth

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's not a bug in the system-settings if something is installing it, that would be a bug in whatever has the recommends/depends pulling it in. What happens if you try to uninstall ubuntu-system-settings? Is anything else uninstalled?

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

When entering the command "sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-system-settings" in Terminal I get the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  account-plugin-ubuntuone ubuntu-system-settings
  ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts unity-scope-click
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 4 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 7,623 kB disk space will be freed.
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