GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 778691
location services says it is in use even though it is disabled and nothing is using it.
Last modified: 2017-03-21 11:06:15 UTC
Created attachment 345848 [details] location services says it is in use. location services says it is in use even though it is disabled and nothing is using it. Gnome-maps and gnome-weather are not running. Notice the two screenshots.
Created attachment 345849 [details] But is is actually disabled.
Which GNOME version?
Sorry, I should have said 3.23.90 (git master branch).
For some reason, /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.service is starting unconditionally now.
I am guessing https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=c09ee2a17cd0645438972635d2c1efd58e0387d6 but even when I have 'night light' off and restart gnome, geoclue is automatically started.
Date & Time automatic timezone? Nevertheless, the toggle should disable those automatically, possibly with a warning if they are enabled.
'Automatic Date & Time' is on. 'Automatic Time zone' is off.
Automatic date and time is handled by systemd-timesyncd on my machine. This always worked. I did git bisect and that checkin is where geoclue started getting automatically launched on logging in. So I guess this is intentional. But it would be nice if turning "Location Services" off stopped geoclue. At least now I know what changed.
With gnome-shell frequently checking your location to give you a report of the weather, the location services are constantly in use. While that is not actually erroneous, it makes the location services indicator less useful. If it's always on, you can not tell when something else is using identifying your location without your attention.
Is it possible that this is now solved with bug#100263 ?
(In reply to Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) from comment #10) > Is it possible that this is now solved with bug#100263 ? Err.. different bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100263
(In reply to Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) from comment #11) > (In reply to Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) from comment #10) > > Is it possible that this is now solved with bug#100263 ? > > Err.. different bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100263 I'm not seeing the location indicator icon now unless I have gnome-maps or gnome-weather open. So it appears it is indeed solved by that bug.
(In reply to Hussam Al-Tayeb from comment #12) > (In reply to Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) from comment #11) > > (In reply to Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) from comment #10) > > > Is it possible that this is now solved with bug#100263 ? > > > > Err.. different bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100263 > > I'm not seeing the location indicator icon now unless I have gnome-maps or > gnome-weather open. So it appears it is indeed solved by that bug. Unlikely that bug in question was the issue then since I double you have git master of geoclue on your system. :) But it's good that your issue is resolved anyway (somehow) and I'll roll out a geoclue release today to get the fix out.