On 11/11/18 2:36 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 11/10/18 10:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 11/10/18 7:32 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >>> systemctl start geoclue >>> >>> Anything special I have to do to it to allow standard >>> users to start it? >> >> You don't. >> >>> $ ls -al /usr/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service >>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 468 Oct 14 11:59 /usr/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service >> >> If you look in that file, you'll see that it's a dbus activated service. It's not >> intended for manual startup. It will run when requested. > > Indeed that is the idea. > > Redshift does this and bombs with a message > that geoclue does not have permission. > > > $ ls -al /usr/libexec/geoclue > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 313368 Oct 14 11:59 /usr/libexec/geoclue > > $ /usr/libexec/geoclue > > (geoclue:23024): Geoclue-CRITICAL **: 22:34:01.971: Failed to acquire name > 'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' on system bus or lost it. > > That is not started by the user directly.... Using 2 terminal sessions..... [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ps -eaf | grep geoclue egreshko 1691 1 0 Nov10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent egreshko 5684 2503 0 17:25 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color=auto geoclue then I start redshift in another terminal....and after a bit I get a popup asking permission for redshift to know my location [egreshko@meimei ~]$ redshift Trying location provider `geoclue2'... Using provider `geoclue2'. Using method `randr'. Waiting for initial location to become available... Location: 25.05 N, 121.53 E and [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ps -eaf | grep geoclue egreshko 1691 1 0 Nov10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent geoclue 5713 1 0 17:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/geoclue egreshko 5735 2503 0 17:27 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color=auto geoclu -- Fedora Users - The place to go to beat OT dead horses :-) :-) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
