Ubuntu – System Settings icons missing

13.10system-settingsupgrade

Is there any way to reset the System Settings Control Panel page?

The Control Panel was fine, but the for no apparent reason, PRIVACY, BACKGROUND and a host of other icons have vanished…

My system seems pretty messed up after the upgrade… Shutdown, Reset, and Logout from the menu no longer work either…

Settings with, presumably, icons missing

However, I can launch the Privacy panel from the terminal:

activity-log-manager

and it runs… so why is this, and others, now missing from the System Setting Control Panel?

I have checked and: activity-log-manager-control-center is installed

Is there a config file I can check, or a setting in Gconf where the list of icons are referenced?

I have run – in desperation –

sudo apt-get purge unity*
sudo apt-get purge ubuntu*
sudo apt-get autoremove

Run Gconf-cleaner and Janitor

then re-installed all packages

Still the same issue….?

Best Answer

I know this is an old post, but in case this happens again try running:

sudo apt-get install unity-control-center

it worked for me when I ran into a similar issue

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