Re: gnome-maps doesn't start due to geoclue

[Juan Rafael García Blanco <juanrgar gmail com>]

Hi,

Thank you very much. This could be a great clue, thanks.

Regards,
Juan.

On 30 Mar 2014, at 14:40, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Juan Rafael García Blanco
> <juanrgar gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you. I’d like to port geoclue2 to OSX; for now I’m just trying to know why it isn’t just working out 
> > of the box. I think I would be fine if I don’t get geoclue2 know where I am; my first goal now is to be 
> > able to run gnome-maps (without geolocalisation).
> >
> > I appreciate every piece of advice you could provide. I don’t expect anyone to port geoclue2 or to spend 
> > more than a few minutes on this.
> >
> > This is the error I get when I run libexec/geoclue:
> > (geoclue:23771): Geoclue-CRITICAL **: Failed to acquire name 'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' on system bus or 
> > lost it.
> >
> > Does this mean autolaunch is not working? Or it simply means that dbus cannot locate geoclue service?
>
> Its the permissions, when you build geoclue you can tell it as which
> user you want to run geoclue as. I suspect this is not set in OSX
> packages and it defaults to 'root' so try running it as root.
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> FSF member#5124