diff --git a/capplets/url-properties/ChangeLog b/capplets/url-properties/ChangeLog
index f9146c7bb..b7671e70c 100644
--- a/capplets/url-properties/ChangeLog
+++ b/capplets/url-properties/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-06-11  Ettore Perazzoli  <ettore@comm2000.it>
+
+	* url-properties.c: Return if `gnome_capplet_init()' returns an
+	error.  Bug reported by Nicola Pero <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>.
+
 1999-05-16  Jacob Berkman  <jberk+@cmu.edu>
 
 	* url-properties.c (url_capplet_commit): added a 
diff --git a/capplets/url-properties/url-properties.c b/capplets/url-properties/url-properties.c
index b936493aa..7c214864c 100644
--- a/capplets/url-properties/url-properties.c
+++ b/capplets/url-properties/url-properties.c
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   if (init_ret == 1) {
     /* nothing to init */
     return 0;
+  } else if (init_ret == -1) {
+    g_error (_("Error initializing the `url-properties' capplet."));
   }
 
   build_capplet();