geoclue2 provider: Unable to start GeoClue client

[ajacoutot]

Hi.

Using redshift 1.10 on OpenBSD, I cannot use the geoclue2 provider.
It fails with:

$ redshift
Trying location provider geoclue2'... Using providergeoclue2'.
Unable to start GeoClue client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Access denied.
Unable to connect to GeoClue.
Unable to get location from provider.

All other apps using geoclue2 work fine (e.g. gnome-maps).
Is there an obvious configuration tweak that I missed?
Thanks.

[jonls]

None that I know of. Please report back if you figure out what the cause is.

[ajacoutot]

No cause sorry. But it's fully reproducible on Arch Linux as well.

[joelmarty]

I can reproduce it in archlinux as well

[spikebike]

On 01/13/2015 02:20 PM, Joël Marty wrote:

I can reproduce it in archlinux as well

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
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Ubuntu-14.04 as well.

[monkeydump]

Anyone worked out a solution for this yet? I too am running arch & have this error.

[zbyna]

Mint 17.1 kde the same issue :
Failed to run Redshift
Trying location provider `geoclue2'...
Unable to connect to GeoClue.
Unable to get location from provider.

console output:
./redshift-gtk

** (redshift-gtk:13902): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files

[zbyna]

Slightly progress:
after installing:
Commit Log for Thu Jan 22 21:51:18 2015
at-spi2-core (2.10.2.is.2.10.1-0ubuntu1)
disappeared :
** (redshift-gtk:13902): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
and /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.a11y.Bus.service was created
output:
./redshift-gtk
Failed to run Redshift
Trying location provider `geoclue2'...
Unable to connect to GeoClue.
Unable to get location from provider.

console output:
nothing
without gui:
./redshift
Zkouší se poskytovatel polohy geoclue2'... trying location provider .. Používám poskytovatelegeoclue2'. using location provider ...
Unable to connect to GeoClue.
Nebylo možné získat polohu od poskytovatele. Unable to get location from provider.

[robr3rd]

Ditto on up-to-date Arch, except my error message leaves out the last two lines (even after waiting 1.5 hours before hitting CTRL+C):

Trying location provider `geoclue2'...
Using provider `geoclue2'.
Unable to start GeoClue client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Access denied.

[zbyna]

It works, here are all my libs related "geoclue" installed, geoclue-2.0 seems to be the problem (at-spi2-core which I mentioned in previous post can be uninstalled without affecting redshift running 😕 ):

ii  geoclue                               0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Geographic information framework
ii  geoclue-2.0                           2.0.0-4                 amd64                   geoinformation service
ii  geoclue-geonames                      0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Geocoder provider for GeoClue (geonames)
ii  geoclue-gpsd                          0.12.99-2ubuntu2        amd64                   Position server for GeoClue (GPS)
ii  geoclue-gsmloc                        0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Position server for GeoClue (GSM)
ii  geoclue-gypsy                         0.12.99-2ubuntu2        amd64                   Position server for GeoClue (GYPSY)
ii  geoclue-hostip                        0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Position server for GeoClue (hostip)
ii  geoclue-localnet                      0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Position server for GeoClue (local network)
ii  geoclue-manual                        0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Position server for GeoClue (manual)
ii  geoclue-nominatim                     0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Geocoding and reverse-geocoding server for GeoClue (Nominatim)
ii  geoclue-plazes                        0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Position server for GeoClue (Plazes)
un  geoclue-provider                      <žádná>                 <none>                  (popis není k dispozici)
ii  geoclue-skyhook                       0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Map and geocode server for GeoClue (Skyhook)
ii  geoclue-ubuntu-geoip                  1.0.2+14.04.20131125-0u amd64                   Provide positioning for GeoClue via Ubuntu GeoIP services
ii  geoclue-yahoo                         0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   Map and geocode server for GeoClue (Yahoo)
ii  libgeoclue-dev                        0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   C API for GeoClue (development files)
ii  libgeoclue0:amd64                     0.12.99-3ubuntu1        amd64                   C API for GeoClue
ii  python-geoclue                        0.1.0-4build1           all                     Python module to access Geoclue data

[jonls]

@ajacoutot @joelmarty @monkeydump Did any of you Arch people try to change /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf? It seems from this post that it is locked down to a few programs by default.

[ajacoutot]

That's correct. Adding this to geoclue.conf did the trick.
Thanks for the link!

[redshift]
allowed=true
system=false
users=

[jonls]

Great, thanks for testing. This appears to actually be the default setup for more recent versions of GeoClue2 so it will probably also be a problem in other distributions when GeoClue2 is updated.

[yafp]

had the same issue on fedora 21 - adding the 3 lines mentioned above in the .conf solved the issue as expected.

Thanks.