By the way, I should have caught this from Oier's output from ldd, pointing to the extraneous library in /usr/local/lib:
libgirepository-1.0.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so.1 (0x00007f0b26b62000) in my installation it points to: libgirepository-1.0.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so.1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784622 Title: ubuntuone-control-panel, language-selector, jockey and software- properties fail to start -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs