Settings crashing and then not opening

Asked by Mark Willson

Desktop icons not showing and settings crashing/not opening

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Mark Willson (markfromwish) said :
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Hi there!
Thanks for taking time and reading it and i am sorry for my bad english.

Well yesterday i upgraded to ubuntu 20.10 and all worked fine but then i wanted to check something in the settings and then i pressed on a button and it crashed.

Is there a log where i can see it or something to report it?
By the way i try later figure out what button it was.
I tried uninstall it and install it but that dosen't work.
And my desktop icons are not showing too.
I added a extansion but that dosen't work.

Please respond maybe if you wanna contact me on discord feel free Linuxisbetterthenwindows#7359

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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If you make a fresh Ubuntu user and log in as that, is it OK?

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Mark Willson (markfromwish) said :
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What do you mean?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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You log in as a user when you use any operating system. You specified its username and password when you installed the operating system.

If you make a new user then log in as that user, does the system show the same issue? The new user will get vanilla settings so if it is OK then we know it is your settings rather that the application at fault.

If you press CTRL + ALT + F1 you can log in at command line and make the user there. Then press CTRL + ALT + F7 (or just reboot) then log in as the new user rather than the user you usually use.

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Mark Willson (markfromwish) said :
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Dear Andrew
Sorry for the late response :(

Well if i make a new user it works but if go to the settings and click on this option it crashes.
And how do i make a user in that command line?
I dont have very much command line knowledge.
Do you have discord?

Greetings from Texas

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/create-a-user-account-on-ubuntu-linux/

The Internet has a wealth of information about things you don't know. Searching it helps find things like the link above....

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