The settings icon disappeared

[treebeard]

Code:

$ sudo apt install gnome-control-center
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-control-center : Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.33.4) but it is not installable
                        Recommends: gnome-user-docs but it is not going to be installed
                        Recommends: gnome-user-share but it is not going to be installed
                        Recommends: gkbd-capplet but it is not going to be installed
                        Recommends: system-config-printer-common (>= 1.4) but it is not going to be installed
                        Recommends: malcontent-gui but it is not going to be installed
                        Recommends: cracklib-runtime but it is not going to be installed
                        Recommends: realmd but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Ideas anyone?

I think that dependency list is out-dated.  Perhaps you didn't do the "apt update" to refresh package info? If that's not the problem try "apt --fix-broken install".

Edit 1: Are you on bullseye or bookworm?
Edit 2: Also do "apt-mark showhold" to see if you have any explicitly-held packages.

[Anna]

If that's not the problem try "apt --fix-broken install".

Edit 1: Are you on bullseye or bookworm?
Edit 2: Also do "apt-mark showhold" to see if you have any explicitly-held packages.

Thanks, treebear.
I'm using bookworm.
Unfortunately --fix-broken didn't help.
But I noticed that I get this message when updating, could that be the cause? Can it be fixed?

Code:

$ upd
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Get:2 http://repo.mobian.org bookworm InRelease [32.4 kB]
Err:2 http://repo.mobian.org bookworm InRelease 
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://repo.mobian.org bookworm InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
W: Failed to fetch http://repo.mobian.org/dists/bookworm/InRelease  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[treebeard]

But I noticed that I get this message when updating, could that be the cause? Can it be fixed?

Code:

$ upd
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Get:2 http://repo.mobian.org bookworm InRelease [32.4 kB]
Err:2 http://repo.mobian.org bookworm InRelease 
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://repo.mobian.org bookworm InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
W: Failed to fetch http://repo.mobian.org/dists/bookworm/InRelease  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Yep, that's the problem.  Your Debian repository is getting updated but the Mobian one isn't due to an authentication change.  There is a cure!

[Anna]

  There is a cure!

Indeed. Thank you!

I'm very happy. Everything seems to work again.

[grump_fiddle_reinstall]

In addition you can no longer just tap right at the top to get the drawer with Wifi/4G etc and volume and brightness controls to slide down. You now have to slide it down 

"Success should not be measured by the amount of change inflicted on others." 

I will shuffle off and be grumpy somewhere else for a while.

I guess I am lucky that I found shortly before I was about to buy two more PinePhones. Now I will wait to see how my experiments with PostmarketOS go before I spend any more money.

you could give Maemo Leste a SD boot try in the meantime.

Interestingly the change for the app drawer at the bottom, from a tap to activate it to a slide does actually solve one problem. With tap to activate it is quite easy to hit the drawer causing it to slide up while trying to hit the spacebar whilst typing some text. Which I find mildly annoying. Now that the drawer has to slide up from the bottom missing the spacebar is no longer a problem.

However, currently switching between PinePhone and a Pro (both with Mobian) the former with the tap behaviour and the latter with the slide behaviours is mucking up my muscle memory.

I am aware of Maemo Leste but I'd actually like something with the XFCE desktop at the moment. I looked at UB Ports briefly but there are still some things that don't work with the PPPro.

The search for the perfect PP(Pro) OS/GUI, like the search for the perfect tent is an eternal and ongoing project.