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

[Juan Rafael García Blanco <juanrgar gmail com>]

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?

Thank you.

Regards,
Juan.



On 30 Mar 2014, at 14:03, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Juan Rafael García Blanco
> <juanrgar gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you very much. Sorry, I don’t really know what you mean by running geoclue manually. I see geoclue2 
> > installs various executable files under libexec/. I’ve tried to run geoclue-manual, and then gnome-maps, 
> > with no luck; geoclue-manual seems to start and run just fine,
>
> That binary is of geoclue1 (among many other geoclue1 binaries you see
> in there), not geoclue2. The binary for geoclue2 is just geoclue.
>
> BTW, unless you are aiming to port geoclue2 and maps etc to OSX, you
> are going to be lucky if they even work on the basic level. Just
> saying you are very much on you own here, unfortunately. All I'm doing
> is to provide you with my guesses, which could be misleading.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> FSF member#5124