time and date settings do not open when selected from top menu

[Ricardo Silveira Cabral]

Binary package hint: unity

On the new unity shell, when pressing the menubar clock and clicking on time & date settings, nothing happens

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Do you have evolution installed? It's not supposed to open the settings, it's supposed to open the Evolution calendar.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Sorry, read that wrong. What happens when you run:

  $ /usr/bin/indicator-datetime-preferences

[Ricardo Silveira Cabral (ric-s-cabral)]

curious... it ran for a minute or so (without any windows being displayed whatsoever) without any message and then

(indicator-datetime-preferences:9162): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

[Yuriy Tkachenko (yuriytk)]

I have the same error message as Ricardo Silveira Cabral has posted.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

I'm also affected by this bug, when I run /usr/bin/indicator-datetime-preferences nothing happens, no window or anything is opened and not message is written to the terminal.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Sorry, after 30 to 40 seconds I get the same error as the one reported in #3

[Zaph0d (nertberble)]

I am also experiencing a bug and have also found a workaround. The problem appears to be with elevation - ie the date and time app fails to request it. Running from terminal the above quoted command works if you ask for elevation. So:

   $ sudo /usr/bin/indicator-datetime-preferences

works fine for me.