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“About this computer” and ”System Settings” are not working

Asked by Navin Talati

Friends,
Please help me for the following.
At the top right of the desktop, through a typical GEAR TYPE symbol, there is a drop-down manu appearing having facilitating actions for :-
About this computer,
Ubuntu Help,
System Settings,
Lock,
Guest,
User name,
Loguot,
Suspend,
Shutdown
etc
Out of these, (1) About this computer, and (2)System Settings, are not working.
What can be the reason?
How to make them Active?
Please, guide and help me.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Is the OS fully updated?

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#2

yes, I regularly updates and upgrades. Also installs through Software Updater

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

What is the output of :

lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#4

"System settings", is the gnome control centre, which you can run using the terminal (CRTL + ALT + T), and typing (without the quotes) "gnome-control-centre", and this may give you an error, leading us to the source of the problem (hopefully!). I'm not sure how you'd launch the system info from the terminal though...

Hope this helps,
Hamish

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#5

Typing (without quotes) "gnome-control-centre" in the terminal gives the error regarding "command not found". The output is as under for your ready reference. I seems something is missing to be installed or removed by mistake while processing cleaning of useless packages (I think so !).
--------------------------O U T P U T --------------------------------------------
navin@navin:~$ gnome-control-centre
No command 'gnome-control-centre' found, did you mean:
 Command 'gnome-control-center' from package 'gnome-control-center' (main)
gnome-control-centre: command not found
navin@navin:~$
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Please, guide further.
Thanks in anticipation.
Navin Talati /25-12-2013

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#7

My bad, I spelt it the British way, but the package is spelt the American way!
Try:

gnome-control-center

Hamish

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#8

Thanks sirs,
The command in the terminal "sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center" gave favourable result to my question.
ans (1) About this computer, and (2)System Settings, started working.
Now the command "gnome-control-center" opens the window.
Thanks a lot.
Navin Talati / 28-12-2013

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#9

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.