gdm --version refuses to report version
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Linux Mint |
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gdm |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
gdm --version on a Gnome Terminal running unprivileged in Mint 8 Helena Main refuses to report the version number. Currently, gdm --help helpfully advises to use gdm --version to get the version number but this seems to assume gdm is not already running. Of course, there are several other ways to get the version number (2.28), but it should also be possible to get it from gdm --version on the command-line even while gdm is already running and managing the display.
When gdm is already running, gdm --version exits with a non-zero status and the following "warning" messages (in fact, they are more than mere warnings; they are clearly error conditions, so calling them "warnings" is wrong):
** (gdm-binary:3235): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.
** (gdm-binary:3235): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out
Workaround: "apt version gdm".
What makes you think you can use "gdm --version"? Is this argument somewhere in some man page or documentation?