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Bug 734349 - Most settings panels suddenly missing from gnome-control-center
Most settings panels suddenly missing from gnome-control-center
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: shell
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-06 11:23 UTC by Nils
Modified: 2021-05-26 09:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
gnome-control-center, started as uid 1000 (34.79 KB, image/png)
2014-08-06 11:23 UTC, Nils
Details
gnome-control-center, started as uid 0 (via sudo) (104.94 KB, image/png)
2014-08-06 11:23 UTC, Nils
Details

Description Nils 2014-08-06 11:23:07 UTC
Created attachment 282657 [details]
gnome-control-center, started as uid 1000

When I launch it from my default (non-root) user account, the gnome-control-center is missing all settings panels, except "Printers" and "Software & Updates".
Launching it with a commandline parameter to open a specific settings panel fails, too:
  $ gnome-control-center display
  ** (gnome-control-center.real:10217): WARNING **: Could not find settings panel "display"

I can only access the panels that aren't listed by launching gnome-control-center as root.

I previously had access to the panels that are now only displayed for root, but I can't pinpoint what caused them to vanish. Is there anything I could do to find and fix whatever caused this?
Comment 1 Nils 2014-08-06 11:23:48 UTC
Created attachment 282658 [details]
gnome-control-center, started as uid 0 (via sudo)
Comment 2 Nils 2014-08-06 11:25:57 UTC
I should note that I'm using i3 as my window manager, but am running the gnome-settings-daemon to handle keyboard shortcuts and the display configuration.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2014-08-06 12:45:59 UTC
Are you really using gnome-control-center 3.6.x? We don't support that any more.

If you're using something newer, which version? From the looks of it, you're running a modified version of gnome-control-center anyway (there's no "Software & Updates" panel in GNOME upstream), so you should check with your distribution what the problem is first.
Comment 4 Nils 2014-08-06 12:51:49 UTC
I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 with version 3.6.3 of the control-center:

  $ gnome-control-center --version
  gnome-control-center 3.6.3

  $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
  gnome-control-center:
    Installed: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56.1
    Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56.1
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56.1 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

When I first checked their bugtracker on launchpad.net, I only found a link to bugzilla.gnome.org, but apparently I just wasn't looking at the right place. I'll head over to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2014-08-06 12:57:19 UTC
Thanks, let us know how it goes.
Comment 6 Nils 2014-08-06 13:03:09 UTC
For reference, the new bug I've filed is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1353480.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2021-05-26 09:21:14 UTC
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please
feel free to report this to
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/
if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment and
if this still happens in a recent and supported version. Thanks!