Description of problem: You can open two subscription-manager-gui by use CLI command and use "System Tools -> Red Hat Subscription Manager" menu Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): subscription-manager-gui-1.11.3-8.el5 subscription-manager-1.11.3-8.el5 subscription-manager-firstboot-1.11.3-8.el5 python-rhsm-1.11.3-4.el5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use system menu "Applications->System Tools->Red Hat Subscription Manager" to open subscription-manager-gui 2.Before the GUI shows up, use CLI to run cmd #subscription-manager-gui Actual results: Waiting for a few seconds you will see two subscription-manager-gui shows up. Expected results: Only one subscription-manager-gui should show. Additional info: If I wait the step 1 's gui shows then execute step2, it will just put the subscription-manager-gui to the front.
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Created attachment 917263 [details] the two rhsm gui shows
This is a dbus timing info. If you open the gui twice in quick succession, we can't detect that it's being concurrently opened. I don't believe this is a problem for most real use cases, and the gui behaves properly in most situations when there are two instances running concurrently.