ubuntu 18.04 settings not opening

Question

My ubuntu's settings is not opening when i click on settings there is a response in the panel showing that settings is opening but after some times it will fade out and the settings wont open.

I uninstalled gnome-control-center and reinstalled but no change when i run the command in terminal this the following output that i got OUTPUT:

gnome-control-center: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmsrpc3.so.0: invalid ELF header

please help me to solve this issue

thank you

Solution

The /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmsrpc3.so.0 library came
from samba-libs package (checked on packages.ubuntu.com search) so consider to reinstall it with

sudo apt-get install --reinstall samba-libs

Comments

[Eugene K]

Didn't work for me after upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04.

[kanehekili]

Could you elaborate, what that answer means? That kill command will likely only work once - in your session. So that answer is misleading...