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redshift package

Redshift always asks for access to location and fails after a few seconds

Bug #1806255 reported by Pierre Rudloff on 2018-12-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1798958: geoclue related crash on redshift-gtk statup. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	redshift (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

Since I upgrade to cosmic, Reshift always asks for access to my location and if I don't answer quickly, it crashes with an error (see attached screenshot).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: redshift-gtk 1.12-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Dec 2 16:44:01 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-06 (970 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: redshift
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Pierre Rudloff (rudloff) wrote on 2018-12-02:

Error screenshot Edit (30.0 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (6.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1003 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (116 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Pierre Rudloff (rudloff) wrote on 2018-12-02:

I added this to /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf:
[redshift]
allowed=true
system=false
users=

And now Redshift does not need to ask for access anymore.

But I still consider this a workaround and I think:
* Redshift should wait for the user answer before crashing
* Geoclue should remember the user answer