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youssef0useer

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Registered: 2025-07-20

Posts: 1

gps wont run in my laptop

idk i do everything right but it wont work

[youssef@archlinux ~]$ sudo systemctl status geoclue.service
● geoclue.service - Location Lookup Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-07-21 00:35:31 CET; 9min ago
Invocation: 9b46e197455c4ddb8eded17311794635
   Main PID: 2921 (geoclue)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 4417)
     Memory: 11.8M (peak: 12.4M)
        CPU: 285ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/geoclue.service
             └─2921 /usr/lib/geoclue

Jul 21 00:35:31 archlinux systemd[1]: Starting Location Lookup Service...
Jul 21 00:35:31 archlinux systemd[1]: Started Location Lookup Service.
Jul 21 00:35:34 archlinux geoclue[2921]: Failed to query location: Query location SOUP error: Unknown Error
Jul 21 00:36:23 archlinux geoclue[2921]: Failed to query location: Query location SOUP error: Unknown Error
Jul 21 00:41:43 archlinux geoclue[2921]: Failed to query location: Query location SOUP error: Unknown Error
[youssef@archlinux ~]$

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,629

Re: gps wont run in my laptop

Do you actually have a GPS receiver in this system? That would be very unusual, geoclue used Mozilla's location service to estimate where you are, but that was shut down. AFAIK, manually entering coordinates is the only good way to get it to work now.

seth

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From: Don't DM me only for attention

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,709

Re: gps wont run in my laptop

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … =heads#L56
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/ … te_2742991

i do everything right but it wont work

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxymoron

Also wrt the "won't work" part:  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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