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Bug 594857 - Warning when type 'gdm --version' in terminal in new GDM
Warning when type 'gdm --version' in terminal in new GDM
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.27.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
: 599754 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-09-11 08:36 UTC by XuJin
Modified: 2010-06-17 00:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description XuJin 2009-09-11 08:36:27 UTC 
In new GDM, when we type 'gdm --version' in terminal as root account. Warning
displays in terminal:

root@jdstest06:/home/work# gdm --version

** (gdm-binary:4160): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager

** (gdm-binary:4160): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out

This bug is also reproduced on Solaris.
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2009-10-31 02:33:59 UTC 
*** Bug 599754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Brian Cameron 2009-10-31 02:36:03 UTC 
Note that you can run "gdmflexiserver --version" or "gdmflexiserver --command=VERSION" to get the version number.  Not really a fix, but a workaround.
The GDM daemon probably
Comment 3 Carlo Gandolfo 2010-04-24 03:39:04 UTC 
That's what I get doing that on terminal:



(~) vega $ gdm --version

** (gdm-binary:18433): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager: Connection ":1.55" is not allowed to own the service "org.gnome.DisplayManager" due to security policies in the configuration file

** (gdm-binary:18433): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2010-06-17 00:06:43 UTC 
commit 72144562f5eab8e6160e1498e6f5a59afcc37485
Author: William Jon McCann <jmccann@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 16 20:06:01 2010 -0400

    Print the version when asked to
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594857


fixed in 2-30 and master.