Bug 1511454 – Inconsistent shell version shown on multiple places

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Bug 1511454 - Inconsistent shell version shown on multiple places

Summary:	Inconsistent shell version shown on multiple places

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	gnome-shell (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.5
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Florian Müllner
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
Docs Contact:	Jana Heves

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Reported:	2017-11-09 07:00 EST by Martin Krajnak
Modified:	2018-10-30 06:21 EDT (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Known Issue
Doc Text:	Inconsistent GNOME Shell versions The GNOME desktop environment currently displays different versions of GNOME Shell. For example, the version returned by the "gnome-shell --version" command is different from the version found in the `Details` section of `Settings`.
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Last Closed:	2018-10-30 06:20:09 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:3140	None	None	None	2018-10-30 06:21 EDT

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Description Martin Krajnak 2017-11-09 07:00:45 EST

Created attachment 1349858 [details]
settings version

Description of problem:
Different version of gnome-shell is shown on multiple places.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.26.2-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.from terminal execute: gnome-shell --version
2.In gnome-shell find settings and go to Details section

Actual results:
[test@localhost gnome-software]$ rpm -q gnome-shell
gnome-shell-3.26.2-1.el7.x86_64
[test@localhost gnome-software]$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.25.4

Settings: Gnome: Version 3.22.2

Expected results:
Version number should be consistent

Comment 4 Bikal Lem 2018-04-12 04:51:23 EDT

confirmed. I can repro. the bug. I updated to 7.5 yesterday and can see the inconsistency. Additionally, I don't have the option to use wayland session.

Comment 5 Martin Krajnak 2018-04-12 05:22:24 EDT

(In reply to Bikal Lem from comment #4)
> confirmed. I can repro. the bug. I updated to 7.5 yesterday and can see the
> inconsistency. Additionally, I don't have the option to use wayland session.

Thanks for confirmation, regarding the wayland session, can you please confirm that you have gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64 package installed ?

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 06:20:09 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140

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