Bug 1207917 - Crashes with "Unable to start GeoClue client"
Summary: Crashes with "Unable to start GeoClue client"
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: redshift
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miloš Komarčević
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-01 01:36 UTC by Brandon Egbert
Modified: 2016-01-28 16:04 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: redshift-1.10-4.fc23 redshift-1.10-4.fc22
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-11-30 21:20:46 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Brandon Egbert 2015-04-01 01:36:41 UTC
Description of problem: When clicking the Redshift icon in the system tray it gives an error and closes.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.10-1.fc21


How reproducible:
Occurs every time on fresh install.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install redshift and redshift-gtk
2. Attempt to open Redshift from the Gnome status tray.

Actual results:
"Failed to run Redshift
Trying location provider `geoclue2'...
Unable to start GeoClue client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Geolocation disabled for UID 1000.
Unable to connect to GeoClue.
Unable to get location from provider."

Expected results:
Not crashing with an error, opening the configuration screen.


Additional info:
Can be fixed by adding
"[redshift]
allowed=true
system=false
users="
to /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf

Comment 1 Jakub Jelen 2015-05-26 15:24:08 UTC
This is not safe default, it is not working out of the box, which is bad.

There is no way to package this thing into redshift rpm and better solution would be to update geoclue2 package. This is being worked on as a bz1214978.

Other way would be to use manual configuration as default, but in this case probably almost nobody would use geoclue.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2015-11-04 11:37:50 UTC
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Comment 3 Kevin R. Page 2015-11-16 09:09:51 UTC
Bug #1214978 has more information, and a proposed fix, for this bug, although an updated package with the upstream fix has not yet been incorporated in F23.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-11-23 21:46:57 UTC
redshift-1.10-4.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-53169cd291

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-11-23 21:47:12 UTC
redshift-1.10-4.fc21 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 21. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-2b72345bc4

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-11-25 02:55:00 UTC
redshift-1.10-4.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update redshift'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-53169cd291

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-11-26 01:22:39 UTC
redshift-1.10-4.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update redshift'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-2b72345bc4

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-11-26 02:27:18 UTC
redshift-1.10-4.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update redshift'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-329c6c59e4

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-11-30 21:20:35 UTC
redshift-1.10-4.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-12-04 21:21:08 UTC
redshift-1.10-4.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 sheepdestroyer 2016-01-28 16:04:04 UTC
I am using redshift-1.10-4.fc23 and still had the issue. The update did not solve the problem for me and I had to manually edit /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf to make it work.


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