Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) reached end-of-life on July 20, 2017.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed. ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1636406 Title: UnknownMethod DescribeAll Status in gedit: Confirmed Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Running gedit with -s -w fails: $ gedit -s -w bla.txt Failed to register: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "DescribeAll" with signature "" on interface "org.gtk.Actions" doesn't exist Omitting the -w parameter however works correctly and the calling process is blocked, so perhaps the -w parameter is no longer needed? Anyway, just wanted you to know that -w is borked. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: gedit 3.22.0-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Oct 25 11:25:15 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-05 (49 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) SourcePackage: gedit UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-09-30 (24 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/1636406/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

