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Zencha
Asked: 2016-12-27 07:43:20 +0800 CST

System Settings won't start, Ubuntu 16.04

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Title says it all.

I did sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get autoremove and all that stuff, but System Settings still won't open.

I tried opening it from a Terminal, and it returned Bus error (core dumped)

Any help would be appreciated!

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4 Answers

  1. Try this,

    sudo apt-get remove unity-control-center
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get install unity-control-center

    It worked for me.

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  2. And if you are trying to do this with Ubuntu 18.04, try this:

    sudo apt-get remove gnome-control-center
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center

    This is because Ubuntu decided to switch their user interface from Unity to Gnome.

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  3. I had a similar issue in Ubuntu 20.04 and I run the following command,

    dconf reset -f /org/gnome/control-center/

    Note: If this works for you, that's great!!! Honestly, I don't know what does it do in behind the scenes.

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  4. With NVIDIA graphics I had to install proprietary nvidia-driver-430.40

    I added repositories:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers

    and ran

    sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

    and reboot

    The problem was solved.

    If does not work for you. To remove the PPAs run:

    sudo ppa-purge ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
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