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I have recently found that in my system, online accounts settings items are missing.

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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS with GNOME 3.28.2.

I'm able to see full setups only using terminal command :

env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center

with root privileges (with sudo).

I tried to reinstall gnome-control-center or to put in the .desktop file the exec command env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center. The result remains the same.

What is wrong?

Update

After running the command: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~

I got the following:

chown: changing ownership of '/home/vladimir/.cache/doc/by-app': Function not implemented
chown: changing ownership of '/home/vladimir/.cache/doc': Function not implemented
chown: changing ownership of '/home/vladimir/.gvfs': Function not implemented
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You have to reinstall GNOME Online Accounts with:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-online-accounts

and then retry starting GNOME Control Center.

Or try to launch GNOME Online Accounts directly by gnome-control-center online-accounts.

Other possibility is that you have messed permissions in the home folder. Restore them with

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.cache ~/.config ~/.local

Note: providing the env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME before command is needed only if your current desktop environment differs from GNOME.

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  • Thank you for a quick response. Your recommendations sound quite reasonable, unfortunately they did not help to resolve the issue. Right now I can see the online accounts only if I use the command sudo env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center
    – Vladimir S.
    Apr 2, 2020 at 12:11
  • Maybe the permission issue is wider, you can try to reown all files in the home folder by running sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~ and then reboot.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 2, 2020 at 12:20
  • Trying to solve the problem, I have updated my initial post.
    – Vladimir S.
    Apr 2, 2020 at 12:35
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Finally, I have solved the problem by a radical method. With help of USB stick I reinstalled Ubuntu into the same partition without formatting, in fact, overwriting my current configuration, now online accounts are shown again as before. The method has own disadvantage, I had to reinstall other software. An alternative idea is to create a new user account, however it also requires the re-installation of other software.

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