Bug 2284621 - Mozilla Location Service shutting down June 12
Summary: Mozilla Location Service shutting down June 12
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: geoclue2
Version: 40
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Neal Gompa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-06-03 17:05 UTC by Teoh Han Hui
Modified: 2024-09-29 02:06 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
freedesktop.org Gitlab geoclue geoclue merge_requests 177 0 None merged Remove Mozilla Location Service 2024-06-28 15:31:04 UTC

Description Teoh Han Hui 2024-06-03 17:05:49 UTC
Fedora needs to make a decision, otherwise geolocation would remain broken.

The original announcement: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

Related discussions:
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2959
* https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112091520931028653

Arch Linux has chosen to use Google's Geolocation API by default:
* https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/geoclue/-/issues/1
* https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/geoclue/-/commit/561b66e7e965f5a2e9f5b0597367243d43bbfa0f

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Teoh Han Hui 2024-06-03 17:21:58 UTC
Another discussion (in Japanese) at https://mls.js2hgw.com/wiki/?Mozilla+Location+Service+%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%8C%E7%B6%99%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E6%A4%9C%E8%A8%8E

It's from 楽天モバイル 電測 ("Rakuten Mobile Densoku"), which seems to be an unofficial project to map out Rakuten Mobile (a Japanese MNO) cell towers.

Comment 2 Sandro Bonazzola 2024-06-28 15:31:04 UTC
journal is being filled up with:
`geoclue[2128]: Failed to query location: Query location SOUP error: Not Found`
every 5 minutes.

Patch seems to be already merged upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/177

Comment 3 Olivier Keun 2024-08-12 09:32:45 UTC
(In reply to Sandro Bonazzola from comment #2)
> journal is being filled up with:
> `geoclue[2128]: Failed to query location: Query location SOUP error: Not
> Found`
> every 5 minutes.
> 
> Patch seems to be already merged upstream:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/177

I just wanted to add that the upstream patch does not fix the underlying issue, it only removes the Mozilla geolocation lookups. So in practice this leaves the system in a state with no working geolocation. 

This is the current situation, geolocation is non-functional at the moment.


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