I was unable to open Settings within Ubuntu, or from right-clicking the desktop. Understandably I was missing gnome-control-center, however it turns out I am missing several dependencies, which are missing further dependencies.
Doing sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade returns no packages installed.
$ gnome-control-center
Command 'gnome-control-center' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install gnome-control-center
However, apt install gnome-control-center returns me broken packages. Doing a reinstall also nets the same error messages.
$ sudo apt install gnome-control-center
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-control-center : Depends: gnome-control-center-data (< 1:3.37) but 1:3.38.5-1ubuntu2 is to be installed
Recommends: gnome-online-accounts (>= 3.25.3) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: network-manager-gnome (>= 0.9.8) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gnome-control-center-faces but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: rygel but it is not going to be installed or
rygel-tracker but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
$ apt policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu4
Version table:
1:3.36.5-0ubuntu4 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
1:3.36.1-1ubuntu5 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
The packages can't be installed:
$ sudo apt install gnome-control-center-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
gnome-control-center-data is already the newest version (1:3.38.5-1ubuntu2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ apt policy gnome-control-center-data
gnome-control-center-data:
Installed: 1:3.38.5-1ubuntu2
Candidate: 1:3.38.5-1ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1:3.38.5-1ubuntu2 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:3.36.5-0ubuntu4 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main i386 Packages
1:3.36.1-1ubuntu5 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages
Something similar is encountered for the others:
$ sudo apt install gnome-online-accounts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-online-accounts : Depends: libgoa-1.0-0b (= 3.36.1-0ubuntu1) but 3.38.1-1ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
Depends: libgoa-backend-1.0-1 (= 3.36.1-0ubuntu1) but 3.38.1-1ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
Depends: python3-macaroonbakery but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gnome-control-center (>= 3.6.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
$ apt policy gnome-online-accounts
gnome-online-accounts:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.36.1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
3.36.1-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
3.36.0-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
Here is more system info:
$ uname -a
Linux <username> 5.14.0-1054-oem #61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 14 13:05:50 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have consulted these pages but to no avail. In fact some of the autoremove made more dependencies break.
- https://serverok.in/ubuntu-20-04-settings-wont-open
- System Settings won't start, Ubuntu 16.04
- gnome-control-center install error
- gnome-control-center appearance tab broken
- Unable to open gnome-control-center in Ubuntu 18.04
- Reporting: I can't open settings in ubuntu 20.04 LTS
gnome-control-center can be successfully installed thanks to this post, however it does not launch at all. The cursor goes into a loading state, and returns back to the pointer after a few minutes.
apt policy gnome-control-center now gives
apt policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
Installed: 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu4
Candidate: 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu4 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:3.36.1-1ubuntu5 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
Attempting to launch gnome-control-center from terminal returns me this error
gnome-control-center: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamdb-common.so.0: undefined symbol: ldb_msg_element_add_value, version LDB_2.2.3
However, apt cache policy is unable to find the package. Not sure if the samba matters so i added it in as well, but it is the same result.
apt-cache policy libsamdb-common.so.0
N: Unable to locate package libsamdb-common.so.0
N: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libsamdb-common.so.0'
N: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libsamdb-common.so.0'
apt-cache policy samba/libsamdb-common.so.0
N: Unable to locate package samba/libsamdb-common.so.0
N: Couldn't find any package by glob 'samba/libsamdb-common.so.0'
N: Couldn't find any package by regex 'samba/libsamdb-common.so.0'
I saw on another post to try running the ldd command, which gave me this.
ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamdb-common.so.0
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdfcfcb000)
libsamba-hostconfig.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-hostconfig.so.0 (0x00007f787c5ba000)
libreplace.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0 (0x00007f787c5b5000)
libndr-samba.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libndr-samba.so.0 (0x00007f787c45e000)
libcli-ldap-common.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-ldap-common.so.0 (0x00007f787c454000)
libsamba-sockets.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-sockets.so.0 (0x00007f787c439000)
libflag-mapping.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libflag-mapping.so.0 (0x00007f787c432000)
libsamba-errors.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-errors.so.1 (0x00007f787c2e7000)
libsamba-util.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-util.so.0 (0x00007f787c274000)
libsamba-security.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security.so.0 (0x00007f787c252000)
libndr.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr.so.1 (0x00007f787c235000)
libsocket-blocking.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsocket-blocking.so.0 (0x00007f787c230000)
libtevent-util.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtevent-util.so.0 (0x00007f787c227000)
libsamba-debug.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0 (0x00007f787c21c000)
libsys-rw.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsys-rw.so.0 (0x00007f787c217000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f787c1f5000)
libtalloc.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtalloc.so.2 (0x00007f787c1e6000)
libldb.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libldb.so.2 (0x00007f787c1b2000)
libtevent.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtevent.so.0 (0x00007f787c19b000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f787bfaf000)
libserver-role.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libserver-role.so.0 (0x00007f787bfaa000)
libgnutls.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30 (0x00007f787bdad000)
libtdb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtdb.so.1 (0x00007f787bd93000)
libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f787bd7b000)
libndr-nbt.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-nbt.so.0 (0x00007f787bd4f000)
libasn1util.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libasn1util.so.0 (0x00007f787bd46000)
libndr-standard.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-standard.so.0 (0x00007f787b9e3000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f787b9c7000)
libiov-buf.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libiov-buf.so.0 (0x00007f787b9c2000)
libinterfaces.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libinterfaces.so.0 (0x00007f787b9bb000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl.so.1 (0x00007f787b99f000)
libtime-basic.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtime-basic.so.0 (0x00007f787b99a000)
libgenrand.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgenrand.so.0 (0x00007f787b995000)
libicuuc.so.66 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.66 (0x00007f787b7af000)
libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f787b6f7000)
libicui18n.so.66 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so.66 (0x00007f787b3f8000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f787b3f1000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f787c62f000)
libp11-kit.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0 (0x00007f787b2b8000)
libidn2.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libidn2.so.0 (0x00007f787b296000)
libunistring.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunistring.so.2 (0x00007f787b112000)
libtasn1.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtasn1.so.6 (0x00007f787b0fc000)
libnettle.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnettle.so.8 (0x00007f787b0b6000)
libhogweed.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhogweed.so.6 (0x00007f787b06e000)
libgmp.so.10 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007f787afeb000)
libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 (0x00007f787afde000)
libicudata.so.66 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.66 (0x00007f787951b000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f7879302000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f78791b4000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7879199000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f787918e000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f7879161000)
libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f7879094000)
liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f7879074000)
libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f7879069000)
libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f7878f46000)
libffi.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.8 (0x00007f7878f3a000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f7878f10000)
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall gives this output. As far as I know, my NVIDIA graphics card should be using driver-470, so it is odd that the others are even included.
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-525-server: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-515: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-515-open: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-510: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-525-open: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-525: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-515-server: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
dctrl-tools dkms libnvidia-cfg1-525 libnvidia-common-525
libnvidia-compute-525 libnvidia-compute-525:i386 libnvidia-decode-525
libnvidia-encode-525 libnvidia-extra-525 libnvidia-fbc1-525 libnvidia-gl-525
libxnvctrl0 nvidia-compute-utils-525 nvidia-kernel-common-525
nvidia-kernel-source-525-open nvidia-prime nvidia-settings nvidia-utils-525
screen-resolution-extra xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-525
Suggested packages:
debtags menu nvidia-driver-525
Recommended packages:
libnvidia-decode-525:i386 libnvidia-encode-525:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-525:i386
libnvidia-gl-525:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libnvidia-compute-470
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dctrl-tools dkms libnvidia-cfg1-525 libnvidia-common-525
libnvidia-compute-525 libnvidia-compute-525:i386 libnvidia-decode-525
libnvidia-encode-525 libnvidia-extra-525 libnvidia-fbc1-525 libnvidia-gl-525
libxnvctrl0 nvidia-compute-utils-525 nvidia-dkms-525-open
nvidia-driver-525-open nvidia-kernel-common-525
nvidia-kernel-source-525-open nvidia-prime nvidia-settings nvidia-utils-525
screen-resolution-extra xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-525
0 upgraded, 22 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 338 MB/339 MB of archives.
After this operation, 884 MB of additional disk space will be used.
How to install/launch gnome-control-center, with multiple broken dependencies?
