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heynnema
Asked: 2025-01-10 00:49:37 +0800 CST

geoclue[3863]: Failed to query location: Query location SOUP error: Not Found

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My /var/log/syslog on my Ubuntu 24.10 is filled with the following geoclue error:

geoclue[3863]: Failed to query location: Query location SOUP error: Not Found

To see the error(s) on your system, do:

grep SOUP /var/log/syslog*

This is because Mozilla Location Service shut down June 12, 2024.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2284621

Google has a similar location service, but it requires a Google API and a config file edit.

Is there a way to fix my location service, and get rid of the continuous error message?

geolocation

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Location services now fail due to Mozilla Location Service was shut down on June 12, 2024. Here, I show a way to obtain geoclue information by hard-coding a location using lat/long, instead of a wireless connection to a now non-existent Mozilla service.

    To see the failure:

    sudo systemctl status geoclue

    Here is a way to use a hard-coded location to make geoclue/location services work again.

    Use https://www.gps-coordinates.net/my-location to obtain your current static location.

    Create a textfile /etc/geolocation containing your coordinates, e.g.:

    50.12345   # latitude
5.12345    # longitude
5          # altitude
1          # accuracy radius

    Note: For extra security, the static location file can be made readable just by the geoclue user:

    sudo chown geoclue /etc/geolocation
sudo chmod 600 /etc/geolocation

    Then in /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf you can disable the geolocation options and enable the static location, e.g.:

    # Enable WiFi source
enable=false

# Enable the static source
# If you make use of this source, you probably should disable other location
# sources in this file so they won't override the configured static location.
enable=true

    https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/geoclue-location-query-broken-due-to-mozilla-service-retirement/128262

    Then restart geoclue:

    sudo systemctl restart geoclue
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