gnome-control-center refuses to open on fresh install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On my fresh install of Ubuntu 18 (minimal install last night) the control center will not open; it shows a loading notification on the top panel briefly, then does nothing. I have attempted to restore functionality by re-installing to no avail. The system does not recognise control center's failure to open as a bug to report.
This is the second install I've produced this bug on, the first being a fresh install on an HP xw8400 workstation, "solved" finally by switching to MATE. As I recall I was able to finagle it to appear once or twice then, but ultimately with no success - I've seen a few threads with similar problems, so something's gotta give cause this is totally ridiculous for an LTS release.
Machine: HP Compaq dc7800p
Release: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
gnome-control-
Installed: 1:3.28.
Candidate: 1:3.28.
Version table:
*** 1:3.28.
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1:
500 http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-control-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jan 2 21:34:29 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Some further information: As I'm intending to switch to MATE for preference anyway, I went ahead and installed the ubuntu-mate-desktop package and set gdm3 to default in the process (I believe it is already default for Bionic?); now on boot I see the MATE loading screen, am taken to the Gnome login screen, gnome-control- center opens. The halt-on-shutdown bug, another bug I've seen a few threads on with fresh installs, and had with my last install as well as this, was also fixed. So now I'm wondering, what has MATE changed during it's install to fix these bugs? Interesting.