Redshift user service disallowed from using GeoClue2
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I can't get Redshift to retrieve geolocation information from GeoClue2. The state right now, after a reboot and without having changed any packages or configuration since the reboot, is that
- the GeoClue service is running:
$ systemctl status geoclue.service
● geoclue.service - Location Lookup Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-09-05 18:49:03 NZST; 3s ago
Main PID: 8489 (geoclue)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 2.1M
CGroup: /system.slice/geoclue.service
└─8489 /usr/lib/geoclue
Sep 05 18:49:03 machine systemd[1] : Starting Location Lookup Service...
Sep 05 18:49:03 machine systemd[1] : Started Location Lookup Service.
- the packages are up to date:
$ pacman --sync --info geoclue2 redshift
Repository : extra
Name : geoclue2
Version : 2.4.12-1
Description : Modular geoinformation service built on the D-Bus messaging system
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue/
Licenses : LGPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : libsoup json-glib libmm-glib avahi libnotify
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : geoclue
Replaces : None
Download Size : 154.42 KiB
Installed Size : 1206.00 KiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Build Date : Sun 02 Sep 2018 07:42:59 NZST
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature
Repository : community
Name : redshift
Version : 1.12-2
Description : Adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings.
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Licenses : GPL3
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : geoclue2 libdrm libxcb libxxf86vm
Optional Deps : python-gobject: for redshift-gtk
python-xdg: for redshift-gtk
gtk3: for redshift-gtk
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 130.88 KiB
Installed Size : 851.00 KiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras
Build Date : Tue 24 Jul 2018 03:19:05 NZST
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature
- GeoClue is configured to allow access from Redshift:
$ tail --lines=4 /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf
[redshift]
allowed=true
system=false
users=
and yet Redshift is unable to start:
$ redshift
Trying location provider `geoclue2'...
Using provider `geoclue2'.
Using method `randr'.
Waiting for initial location to become available...
Unable to start GeoClue client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying.
Unable to get location from provider.
The user service exhibits a *different* behaviour:
Trying location provider `geoclue2'...
Using provider `geoclue2'.
Using method `randr'.
Waiting for initial location to become available...
Unable to start GeoClue client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: 'redshift' disallowed, no agent for UID 1000.
Access to the current location was denied by GeoClue!
Make sure that location services are enabled and that Redshift is permitted
to use location services. See https://github.com/jonls/redshift#faq for more
information.
Unable to get location from provider.
There seems to be a hack available to work around a similar problem - the error message above is different from that page when starting the program manually - but I'm interested in whether a more permanent fix is available or being worked on.
Asked by l0b0
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Sep 5, 2018, 07:08 AM
Last activity: Oct 23, 2018, 03:10 AM
Last activity: Oct 23, 2018, 03:10 AM