System Settings won't start, Ubuntu 16.04

Question

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!

ubuntu20; I just do a sudo apt-get install unity-control-center. I don't know why it happens from time to time — Igor Manoel, Sep 29 '20 at 13:50

score 77 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '17 at 14:39

77

Try this,

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

It worked for me.

answered Jan 13 '17 at 14:39

Vikas Shah

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Tried this not working with ubuntu 18 – Kemin Zhou Jul 25 '18 at 16:07
How does this explain "Bus error (core dumped)" and why does this fix the problem? – Wyck Sep 05 '19 at 15:22
Worked for me, unity-control-center wasn't properly isntalled. Thanks! – Quidam Apr 27 '20 at 00:27
Worked on ubuntu 18.04 – krmld Sep 15 '20 at 03:24
Worked on Ubuntu 20.04.2 – Suleman May 10 '21 at 10:11
Worked for me too! Mine were suddenly gone in Ubuntu 20 – A.W. Jul 31 '21 at 20:17
Didn't work for me. My installation of unity-control-center runs without errors, but it has no gui or commandline output. – Ben Alan Sep 01 '21 at 18:19

score 54 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '18 at 16:05

54

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.

answered Jul 28 '18 at 16:05

Jake Malis

6

How is it a dupe of the answer above?? – doug Jul 28 '18 at 16:22
2

Ubuntu decided to switch from unity (the first person said "unity-control-center") to gnome ("gnome-control-center"). The commands are very similar, however Kemin asked how for Ubuntu 18. – Jake Malis Jul 29 '18 at 17:06
Jake - someone commented that your post was a dupe, I questioned that & they removed their comment which gives mine no context. Probably I should just remove mine now that I see comments can be removed.. – doug Jul 29 '18 at 20:23
yes this worked for 18.04 that have running on VMWare. but why suddenly it stopped showing? – Simple Fellow Aug 05 '19 at 12:06
This is working totally fine. Thank you very much you saved my day. I was thinking to reinstall Ubuntu in my machine. – K Rajitha Oct 26 '19 at 16:11

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 18 '21 at 03:07

2

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.

answered Jan 18 '21 at 03:07

JPG

Vijay · Answer 4 · 2021-11-23T21:33:08.293

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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

edited Nov 23 '21 at 21:33

answered Aug 25 '19 at 15:11

Vijay

this was my problem. i just had an "unknown display" which the settings was opening on. i eventually realized and was able to drag it in. then to get rid of that "unknown display" you can either update drivers to the recommended with sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall or manually switch to a propriety driver in Additional Drivers, which the autoinstall did to "(propriety, tested)". – Puddle Mar 14 '20 at 18:47
Installing the latest nvidia-driver-* solved my issue, but only after a reboot. It would be nice to add that to your answer. – Eric Fossum Nov 22 '21 at 19:30
@Eric Fossum thanks. Added reboot.as suggted. – Vijay Nov 23 '21 at 21:35

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