cannot disable Location Services in Privacy Settings

[Staš Kotarac Guček]

Even though I disabled Location Services in GNOME Shell, they still show up as In use in the Privacy Settings panel. Upon clicking on this particular option, the slider is indeed shown to be OFF, but the panel still claims they are In use.

See the attached picture(s). Using a freshly installed 17.04 Ubuntu GNOME.

[Staš Kotarac Guček (skgucek)]

Another picture, this time showing that the slider is indeed set to OFF.

[Maximilian Tandler (mtandler)]

I upgraded from a 16.10 Ubuntu GNOME to 17.04 and do also have this bug now. I have disabled location services in my settings but they show up as in use. Please see attached screenshot.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[OKay man (okayman)]

I was having this trouble after upgrading to ubuntu 17.04, I think I've found a workaround.
I simply uninstalled the following packages
geoclue and geoclue-ubuntu-geoip.
Now it appears off on the settings and on the top bar.

[Maximilian Tandler (mtandler)]

I can not confirm your workaround, because these packages were not installed on my machine in the first place.

#apt-get purge geoclue geoclue-ubuntu-geoip
Package 'geoclue' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'geoclue-ubuntu-geoip' is not installed, so not removed

So the problem still persists on my Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 Laptop.

[Maximilian Tandler (mtandler)]

I think the problem lies within the geoclue-2.0 package.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

There are some Location fixes in the GNOME 3.24.1 proposed updates. If all goes well, those updates should be available in Ubuntu 17.04 next week.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[FZ (sirfz)]

Removing geoclu and geoclue-ubuntu-geoip also remove gnome-clocks and gnome-weather which is an unwanted side-effect in my case. Besides, this disables the location feature completely rather than allow you to enable/disable the feature.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Are you still able to duplicate this issue with gnome-shell 3.24.1-0ubuntu1 ? (Log out and log back in after installing the update.)

[FZ (sirfz)]

I'm on Ubuntu 17.04 (upgraded from 16.10) and I never received an update to gnome-shell 3.24.1. I had to manually run apt install gnome-shell which updated gnome-shell to 3.24.1 but this bug persists, no change whatsoever.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm marking this a duplicate of bug 1682167 since there is more specific details there. Someone needs to report this continuing issue to GNOME.