Cannot open system settings

[j88n]

I ran: sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-desktop

and the response was that it wasn't installed, so won't be removed.

Running the command:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

...it's moving along , should I restart when it's done?

[Bashing-om]

j88n; uhm..
No, let's not reboot yet.

When it completes;
What results from:

sudo service lightdm start

I ask again ->

what in the world is going on ?

[j88n]

looks like it automatically started the GUI login page, yay!

I logged in and the desktop seems to be restored, as well as the side bar and top menu bar! The terminal window also opens successfully

[Bashing-om]

j88n; Great !

okay ->

sudo dpkg -C

we want to know !

are we still together

[j88n]

Yup!

No output when running 'sudo dpkg -C' ...that's a good sign, right?!

[Bashing-om]

j88n; That is an excellent sign !

Sure relieves a lot of anxiety !..

OK, play with the system,, see that all works .. and open a few personal files... all good ?

now reboot .. and tell me all is still good !

I have some other things to get caught up on,
I will be back shortly.

who was that masked man

[j88n]

Thanks for walking me through this!!!

Everything looks good, except after rebooting & opening chrome, I experienced an internal error. Not sure what triggered it though.. rebooting or opening chrome:

ExecutablePath
/usr/lib/gnome-online-accounts/goa-daemon

Package
gnome-online-accounts 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.1

ProblemType
Crash

Title
goa-daemon crashed with signal 7

ApportVersion
2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6

Architecture
amd64

CoreDump
(binary data)

etc...

[Bashing-om]

j88n; erre;

Maybe we are not out of the woods after all.

Play around in the system some and reboot a few times, see if anything breaks...

I still have my suspistions (sp) that all is not !

but it could be all is good,,

[j88n]

Also gnome-control-center still won't open. I get the bus error and pop-up that says that the application has closed unexpectedly.

I'm going to continue to play around with everything

[Bashing-om]

j88n; not good !

see what else, -> broken

other things but I will be back