This test has proven to be unreliable, often leading to things like this in gapplication.log: PASS: gapplication 3 /gapplication/properties Failed to register: The connection is closed ** GLib-GIO:ERROR:gapplication.c:564:test_quit: assertion failed: (activated) ok 4 /gapplication/app-id PASS: gapplication 4 /gapplication/app-id ../../tap-test: line 5: 24133 Aborted $1 -k --tap # GLib-GIO:ERROR:gapplication.c:564:test_quit: assertion failed: (activated) cleaning up pid 24154 ERROR: gapplication - missing test plan ERROR: gapplication - exited with status 134 (terminated by signal 6?) See and . --- glib-2.40.2/gio/tests/gapplication.c 2014-12-03 22:34:44.566667649 +0100 +++ glib-2.40.2/gio/tests/gapplication.c 2014-12-03 22:34:45.346674179 +0100 @@ -685,7 +685,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) /* g_test_add_func ("/gapplication/non-unique", test_nonunique); */ g_test_add_func ("/gapplication/properties", properties); g_test_add_func ("/gapplication/app-id", appid); - g_test_add_func ("/gapplication/quit", test_quit); g_test_add_func ("/gapplication/local-actions", test_local_actions); /* g_test_add_func ("/gapplication/remote-actions", test_remote_actions); */ g_test_add_func ("/gapplication/local-command-line", test_local_command_line);