System settings won't open on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS after adding System76/pop PPA
Finally I found a solution!
The cause of this problem was pop-theme, that I installed once, plus its repository entry, that provided me the broken System settings (gnome-control-center
). In order to solve this:
I installed Ubuntu desktop PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa
I removed all System76/pop (and other trush) entries, with
update-manager
, leaving Ubuntu desktop the only one active.Now that I have the proper repository entry added, I re-install
gnome-control-center
.sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-control-center
Enjoy Gnome System settings!
sudo apt install ppa-purge
For the next step the PPA has to be active.
sudo ppa-purge ppa:system76/pop
This removes packages from this PPA if they are not available from Ubuntu repositories, or reverts to Ubuntu package versions.
I had the same issue. I was able to fix by removing the GNOME extension/theme which caused the issue and then running:
sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-control-center