Bug#748782: gnome-settings-daemon: man page describes --no-daemon option but it does not work

Chris Bainbridge chris.bainbridge at gmail.com
Tue May 20 18:18:57 UTC 2014


Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.8.5-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Not sure whether the problem here is an inaccurate man page, or broken option.
The Changelog and NEWS of the source do refer to an option '--no-daemon' - so
it existed at some point.

man gnome-settings-daemon

       --no-daemon
              Do not detach the daemon process from its controlling terminal

$ gnome-settings-daemon --no-daemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:6733): WARNING **: Unknown option --no-daemon



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.20.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.8.2-2
ii  libc6                                        2.18-5
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2
ii  libcolord1                                   1.0.6-1
ii  libcups2                                     1.7.2-3
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.11.0-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.40.0-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-7                         3.8.4-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.12.1-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               204-8
ii  libibus-1.0-5                                1.5.5-1
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.6-1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-16                       0.8.17-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.3-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      5.0-2
ii  libpulse0                                    5.0-2
ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.40.2-1
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.23-2+b2
ii  libwacom2                                    0.8-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.1-1
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxkbfile1                                  1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.2-1
ii  nautilus-data                                3.8.2-3
ii  systemd                                      204-8

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  pulseaudio  5.0-2

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver            3.6.1-1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:2.34.13-1
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.7+2
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]     4.10.1-2

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