Bug 691172

Summary: gnome-control-center --help quits control-center
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert>
Component: control-centerAssignee: Control Center Maintainer <control-center-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Christoph Wickert 2011-03-27 10:48:08 UTC
Description of problem:
Running 'gnome-control-center --help' in a terminal while the control center is already running closes the running instance.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-2.91.92-1.fc15.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Systen Settings
2. Open a terminal
3. $ gnome-control-center --help
  
Actual results:
control-center windows is closed and an error message is displayed in the terminal:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

Expected results:
The window should remain open and the terminal should just contain
$ gnome-control-center --help
Usage:
  gnome-control-center [OPTION...] - System Settings

Help Options:
  -h, --help               Show help options
  --help-all               Show all help options
  --help-gtk               Show GTK+ Options

Application Options:
  --version                
  -o, --overview           Show the overview
  --display=DISPLAY        X display to use

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2011-04-08 01:21:44 UTC
Fix proposed upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647123

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2011-04-29 03:03:15 UTC
fixed in current updates