[SOLVED] Preferences screens don't show up

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[SOLVED] Preferences screens don't show up

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Hello,

most of Preferences screens don't show-up (Sound, Accessibility, Account Detail, Applets, Background, ...). Are there any logs where I can see what's wrong ?

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System:    Kernel: 5.13.0-1010-oem x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.6 Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma 
           base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: XPS 17 9700 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0CXCCY v: A03 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.9.2 date: 08/09/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.0 Wh condition: 83.6/95.1 Wh (88%) model: SMP DELL 01RR3YM status: Unknown 
Memory:    RAM: total: 31.11 GiB used: 1.79 GiB (5.8%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Topology: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-10875H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: N/A L2 cache: 16.0 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 73598 
           Speed: 857 MHz min/max: 800/5100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 817 2: 2101 3: 1226 4: 900 5: 800 6: 800 7: 842 8: 900 
           9: 921 10: 900 11: 1001 12: 936 13: 855 14: 840 15: 844 16: 900 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060] vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 3840x2400~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 00:1f.3 
           Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.1 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.13.0-1010-oem 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 vendor: Bigfoot Networks driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 00:14.3 
           IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8152 Fast Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152 bus ID: 1-8.4:6 
           IF: enx00e04c361a11 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-3: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152 bus ID: 10-2.4:4 
           IF: enxc025a52ede94 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 110.31 GiB (11.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: PC SN730 NVMe WDC 1024GB size: 953.87 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 486.69 GiB used: 110.18 GiB (22.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 146.0 MiB used: 126.6 MiB (86.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 16.54 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/boltgolt-howdy-focal.list 
           1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/boltgolt/howdy/ubuntu focal main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cappelikan-ppa-focal.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mysql.list 
           1: deb http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu/ bionic mysql-apt-config
           2: deb http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu/ bionic mysql-5.7
           3: deb http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu/ bionic mysql-tools
           4: deb-src http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu/ bionic mysql-5.7
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport
           2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/scootersoftware.list 
           1: deb https://www.scootersoftware.com/ bcompare4 non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list 
           1: deb https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:      Processes: 377 Uptime: 21m Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38 
thanks
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[SOLVED] Preferences screens don't show up

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I found the command line to open cinnamon settings looking into desktop files. When launching it I add an error message 'No module named PIL'.

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cinnamon-settings sound


Then everything went fine, just had to reinstall PIL modules:

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apt install --reinstall 'python3-pil' 'python-pil'
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Re: [SOLVED] Preferences screens don't show up

Post by beachgardener »

Brilliant !! Thank you steph68, this was very helpful, sorted out the issue for me :D
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