Julian suggests the issue is likely due to mesa being older in focal than in bionic-updates, suggested workaround is to enable focal-proposed and install mesa from there, then disable proposed and try again to install ubuntu-desktop^
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861991 Title: upgraded to focal yesterday, I've got no control panel, my theme is weird, and alt-tab isn't working Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I don't have the skills to pick apart this mess, sorry. If there's anything I can do to help debug it give me a shout. Thank you. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.34.3-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-12.15-generic 5.4.8 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Feb 5 09:24:24 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 DistributionChannelDescriptor: # This is a distribution channel descriptor # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor canonical-oem-somerville-xenial-amd64-20160624-2 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-24 (710 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20160624-10:47 RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.34.3-1ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-02-05 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1861991/+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