Steps to reproduce: - Navigate to: - System Settings... - Devices - Displays
Expected behaviour - The display configuration options are shown Actual behaviour - The following message is shown: "Could not get screen information" If there's any additional system settings or logs you need let me know. I've noticed a whole host of problems since upgrading to 17.10. Most of them relating to graphical elements E.g. Dragging windows would sometimes cause my session to reboot. My Evolution mail client continually crashed (I had to uninstall it). Just this morning I encountered a new issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1733557 I've made no manual changes to an of the core settings/packages on Ubuntu (freshly installed 6 months ago). If there's any steps you'd like me to try, let me know. At this point I had resigned myself to reformatting my machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1733318 Title: Displays -> Could not get screen information Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: After suffering a login-loop bug (which I fixed with "mv .Xauthority .Xauthority.bak") my screen settings disappeared. When I attempted to reset them I could no-longer access my Display Settings. Instead of my normal display settings I got: Could not get screen information ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.26.1-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.4 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu Date: Mon Nov 20 12:07:14 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-17 (216 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-23 (28 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1733318/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp