Comment 0 for bug 1810368

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-center:
  Installed: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  Candidate: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 500
         500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.28.1-0ubuntu1 500
         500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
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_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)