[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location when using GeoClue locator backend
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 Ismael Asensio changed: What|Removed |Added CC||isma...@gmail.com --- Comment #14 from Ismael Asensio --- I've been researching a bit on the topic, since I've been also affected by this issue (Kubuntu 24.10 base, Qt 6.8.1, KDE master). After the downfall of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) (in which most FOSS location services were based on). Since then, we've moved to QtPositioning, which for our use case, acts mostly a layer on top of geoclue. At the same time, geoclue moved from using MLS as a default provider based on Wi-Fi networks to no default service (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/184). This means that the issue is a bad configuration of GeoClue's settings, which is now mostly up to the distribution: arch opted to use the Google services with a custom API key (https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/geoclue/-/commit/561b66e7e965f5a2e9f5b0597367243d43bbfa0f), while others such as NixOs (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/321121) are leaning into beaconDB (https://beacondb.net/). The version on my system (Kubuntu 24.10) stills point to the Mozilla services, which explain why it fails. >From a user POV, as a workaround, one can restore the functionality by editing the `/etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf` file, for example with this (or a different provider url): [wifi] enable=true url=https://api.beacondb.net/v1/geolocate I also had to enable the location service access using `gsettings set org.gnome.system.location enabled true`. On our KDE side, I think we need to improve the integration with the geoclue service (as we are going to increasingly use it), so we can let the users set or at least know about the settings, and the error state to show in the UI. I still haven't been able to get an error message or even a state change from QtPositioning when the service is failing. Also, it is no longer true that geoclue uses GeoIP for the location (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/184/diffs?commit_id=6ec21c1e9e6b82ae0ea629ccc0acdd5c088e487b). We should update this info on the KCM, ideally with the actual provider the user's sending packages to. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location when using GeoClue locator backend
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 Nate Graham changed: What|Removed |Added Summary|Night Light does not|Night Light does not |identify GPS location |identify GPS location when ||using GeoClue locator ||backend -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 Ivan Garcia changed: What|Removed |Added CC||igar...@cloudox.org --- Comment #13 from Ivan Garcia --- Hello! same as everybody else. My nightlight also cannot locate my location; geoclue2 is installed and my system is up to date. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 --- Comment #12 from José Rafael --- On my PC with Fedora KDE Spin version 41, the GPS night light geolocation still doesn't work with the Plasma 6.2.4 update. However, on my other laptop using Fedora Atomic Kinoite 41 with KDE Plasma 6.2.4, the gps is working normally. Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 Kernel Version: 6.11.8-300.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4400 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 Aranjedeath changed: What|Removed |Added CC||orangewi...@gmail.com --- Comment #11 from Aranjedeath --- My nightlight also cannot locate my location; geoclue2 is installed. I am on KDE NEON user edition not fedora. running kcm on CLI gives: qml: Page SubCategoryPage_QMLTYPE_105(0x62d4c3883b10) is already in the PageRow qml: Pushed pages do not conform to the rules. Please check the documentation. qml: push (file:///usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/qml/org/kde/kirigami/PageRow.qml:223) onActiveSubCategoryRowChanged (qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/systemsettings/SubCategoryPage.qml:180) qt.qpa.wayland: eglSwapBuffers failed with 0x300d, surface: 0x0 querying journalctl --reverse after produces: Nov 21 14:52:54 tsubaki geoclue[1702]: Failed to query location: Query location SOUP error: Not Found -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 TraceyC changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |--- Status|NEEDSINFO |CONFIRMED --- Comment #10 from TraceyC --- On my regular Plasma install with 6.2.3 I see ❯ pgrep -fla geoc 2870 /usr/lib64/geoclue/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent On git-master, I don't see any geoclue service running The location service isn't working on either, so the agent seems like a separate but related problem. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 Nate Graham changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|--- |WAITINGFORINFO Status|CONFIRMED |NEEDSINFO --- Comment #9 from Nate Graham --- > qt.positioning.geoclue2: Unable to obtain the client: > "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" "The name is not activatable" This seems to imply that it's failing to communicate with geoclue, which is the geolocating service. On my system where it works, I see /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent running. Is it not running on your system where it's broken? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 --- Comment #8 from TraceyC --- Upstream related bug https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtlocation/+/604697 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 TraceyC changed: What|Removed |Added Status|REOPENED|CONFIRMED CC||kde...@tlcnet.info --- Comment #7 from TraceyC --- I am able to reproduce this on git-master, fully rebuilt with kde-builder workspace and restarted Night Light does not retrieve the current location, causing it to use Lat: 0 Long: 0 as the location. This causes Night Light to turn on and off at the wrong times. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set Night Light to Sunset and sunrise at current location, Apply OBSERVED RESULT The status animation under "Locating..." stays animated until some timeout is reached The current location is not detected Night light turns night mode on at the wrong time, even though GeoIP.com correctly detects my location based on the machine's IP. After some time, the current location shown in the kcm is Lat: 0 Long: 0 EXPECTED RESULT Location is detected Additional note: If the location lookup fails, there should be an error presented to the user to let them know what happened and what steps, if any, they can take SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS - reproduced on git-master (re-ran kde-builder workspace) also on KDE Neon (Uses GeoClue2, no animation representing location query) KDE Neon Testing Kubuntu (still says its using Mozilla Location Service - which returns US as my country, verified by clicking the link) - one older VM, one freshly installed VM also on Operating System: Solus 4.6 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.7.3 Kernel Version: 6.11.7-309.current (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION geoip.com correctly detects my machine's IP address and location based on that Another user that has Solus Plasma sees the same issue (located in Canada, we are both in Central Time) >From git-master: ~ systemsettings kcm_nightlight qml: Pushed pages do not conform to the rules. Please check the documentation. qt.positioning.geoclue2: Unable to obtain the client: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" "The name is not activatable" I'm wondering if queries to the APIs fail from certain locations but not others? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 José Rafael changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |--- Status|NEEDSINFO |REOPENED Ever confirmed|0 |1 Version|6.1.90 |6.2.0 --- Comment #6 from José Rafael --- My main laptop using Fedora SPIN KDE also still can't locate the GPS with GeoIP (GeoClue2) which also keeps locating forever with no response. ➜ ~ systemsettings kcm_nightlight qml: Pushed pages do not conform to the rules. Please check the documentation. qt.qpa.wayland: eglSwapBuffers failed with 0x300d, surface: 0x0 ➜ ~ rpm -qa | grep geoc geoclue2-2.7.0-5.fc40.x86_64 ➜ ~ kinfo Operating System: Fedora Linux 40 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4400 ➜ ~ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
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[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 --- Comment #4 from José Rafael --- (In reply to Vlad Zahorodnii from comment #3) > Você tem o geoclue2 instalado em sua máquina? Yes, I have this package installed on my system joserafael2@Ibyte-Fly2:~$ rpm -qa | grep geoc geoclue2-2.7.0-6.fc41.x86_64 joserafael2@Ibyte-Fly2:~$ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 --- Comment #3 from Vlad Zahorodnii --- Do you have geoclue2 installed on your machine? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 --- Comment #2 from José Rafael --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Talvez o backend do geoclue esteja quebrado no seu sistema? Funciona no meu. > Você tem um proxy ou VPN ativo? Você pode executar `systemsettings > kcm_nightlight` em uma janela de terminal, reproduzir o problema e colar > qualquer texto mostrado na janela do terminal? Muito obrigado! joserafael2@Ibyte-Fly2:~$ systemsettings kcm_nightlight qml: Pushed pages do not conform to the rules. Please check the documentation. qt.qpa.wayland: eglSwapBuffers failed with 0x300d, surface: 0x0 So, I don't use Proxy or VPN here, I've already created a new user on this Laptop, so it's clean of settings from other past versions of fedora, but the location spends forever looking for my location anyway! Above is the command you asked for and it only showed that! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[systemsettings] [Bug 493699] Night Light does not identify GPS location
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699 Nate Graham changed: What|Removed |Added Status|REPORTED|NEEDSINFO Keywords||regression Resolution|--- |WAITINGFORINFO CC||n...@kde.org --- Comment #1 from Nate Graham --- Perhaps the geoclue backend is broken on your system? It works on mine. Do you have a proxy or a VPN active? Can you run `systemsettings kcm_nightlight` in a terminal window, reproduce the issue, and paste any text that it shows in the terminal window? Thanks a lot! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
