Can't open system settings
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In fully updated Linux Mint 18 I suddenly noticed that I can't open Sound Settings.
I decided to go to sound settings trough System Settings, but then even System Settings did not open.
I opened terminal and ran "cinnamon-settings"
this was the result:
user@user-PC ~ $ cinnamon-settings
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
import gi
ImportError: No module named gi
Ok, did something mess with my python?
user-PC user # apt-get install python-gi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-gi is already the newest version (3.20.0-0ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
and then I try running "cinnamon-settings" as root and it works fine.
I really don't want to log in as root every time I want to change volume of specific application.
in my case, was caused by competing python installation (as part of anaconda). cinnamon behaved normally after removal of anaconda/bin from PATH.