control center is empty - no icons shown

[Michal Suchanek]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

No icons are shown in the control center.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.0.2-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 18 17:55:48 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Could you please provide a screenshot ?
This may be related to bug 797833.
Thanks in advance.

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

I did include a screenshot but for some reason LP did not save it with the bug.

I don't think this is related to the other bug, there are icons in that other screenshot.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What icon theme do you use? Could you run gnome-control-center on a command line and copy the log there?

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

 $ dpkg -l *-icon-theme-*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii gnome-icon-theme-full 3.0.0-2ubuntu3 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.0.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme (symbolic icons)

$ gnome-control-center

(gnome-control-center:7364): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to underallocate toplevel GtkWindow 0x7ffa154340a0. Allocation is 675x65, but minimum required size is 675x71.

(gnome-control-center:7364): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to underallocate GtkWindow's child GtkVBox 0x7ffa15476070. Allocation is 675x65, but minimum required size is 675x71.

(gnome-control-center:7364): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to underallocate toplevel GtkWindow 0x7ffa154340a0. Allocation is 675x65, but minimum required size is 675x71.

(gnome-control-center:7364): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to underallocate toplevel GtkWindow 0x7ffa154340a0. Allocation is 675x65, but minimum required size is 675x71.

(gnome-control-center:7364): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to underallocate GtkWindow's child GtkVBox 0x7ffa15476070. Allocation is 675x65, but minimum required size is 675x71.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you get a "strace gnome-control-center 2>&1 | grep control-center-1" log?

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

$ strace gnome-control-center 2>&1 | grep control-center-1
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels",
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 9
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libuniversal-access.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=30808, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libuniversal-access.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libinfo.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=30592, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libinfo.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libprinters.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=83840, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libprinters.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libkeyboard.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=71552, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libkeyboard.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libmouse-properties.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22336, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libmouse-properties.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libuser-accounts.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=178416, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libuser-accounts.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libregion.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=67472, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libregion.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libdisplay.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=71552, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libdisplay.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libbackground.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=79824, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libbackground.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libsound.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=186168, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libsound.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libnetwork.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=67384, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libnetwork.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libdate_time.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=47280, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libdate_time.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libscreen.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18232, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libscreen.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libmedia.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22520, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libmedia.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
stat("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libpower.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18224, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/control-center-1/panels/libpower.so", O_RDONLY) = 10

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Rodrigo, do you have any clue what could be wrong there?

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

I'm seeing the same problem on a machine I just upgraded from Natty to Oneiric last night. Control center was fine before, but is now empty. Re-installing the gnome-control-center and gnome-control-center-data made no difference - nor did logging in as a different user.

[steve (b6111282)]

I have almost the same problem: Some icons are there some are missing. See http://pastebin.com/fRvksA0Z for the error messages.

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

The control center works for me now.

Unfortunately, apport would not attach the collected info to existing report.

[Kenneth Fazzone (kfazz01)]

g-c-c shows up empty in my user account, and in a new test account, whether i log in from lightdm or gdm. running it from a term produces no output at all.
 but i noticed that it does work _inside_ lightdm if with the unity theme set.

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

What do you mean "_inside_ lightdm", Kenneth? Earlier in your post you said it doesn't work when you log in from lightdm, so I don't quite grok your meaning.

Still broken here - with all available updates installed. I have my DM set to GDM because of /bad experiences/ with lightdm early on.

[Kenneth Fazzone (kfazz01)]

with universe enabled install unity-greeter, then edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Uncomment / change greeter theme to unity
greeter-theme=unity
restart lightdm and click in upper right corner next to clock. you will see the familiar logout menu.
clicking system settings brings up gnome-control-center for me with at least some icons.
if i then log in the window stays, but newly opened ones in my user session still don;t work.

[Kenneth Fazzone (kfazz01)]

after logging in(unity or unity2d session) i get this in my dmesg:
[ 99.323656] show_signal_msg: 12 callbacks suppressed
[ 99.323667] gsettings-data-[1922]: segfault at c ip b76e4b49 sp bf9a3920 error 4 in libgconf-2.so.4.1.5[b76cf000+2c000]
[ 100.537168] gsettings-data-[1943]: segfault at c ip b76b4b49 sp bfed5170 error 4 in libgconf-2.so.4.1.5[b769f000+2c000]

i'm unsure if this is related

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Does this still happen for anyone in the current version of gnome-control-center? I've never seen this problem.

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[Kenneth Fazzone (kfazz01)]

i'm still experiencing this problem. with all updated packages. No PPAs installed, i even tried removing all packages from universe and restoring al package configs to default, and a new user account. no luck. this install was upgraded from maverick. i can't test a new install at the moment because the cd drive is toast.

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

Not sure about everyone else, but I just checked it again today and it appears to be fixed! I know it was still broken as of last weekend, so... it was fixed sometime in the last four days or so.

Can you others confirm that you no longer see the problem either?

[Kenneth Fazzone (kfazz01)]

i just ran dist-upgrade and it's fixed on my machine!

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks all for your comments. I'm closing this report due to the latest comments.