Error getting position: Router mac address query failed

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 17:37 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
> On 25.08.2010 15:44, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 15:11 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> >   
> >> On 08/25/2010 02:06 PM, Stefan Kost wrote:
> >>  > yes, I am on a wired connection...
> >>
> >> Hmmm, it's unfortunate that the wired router MAC isn't available via 
> >> this connman implementation. It would be just as useful.
> >>
> >>  >.. and indeed if I enable wireless I get those warnings instead:
> >>  > ** (geoclue-test-gui:27072): WARNING **: Error getting position: Could
> >>  > not understand reply from server
> >>  > ** (geoclue-test-gui:27072): WARNING **: Error getting address: Could
> >>  > not understand reply from server
> >>
> >> The warning comes from a web provider that cannot parse the response 
> >> from the service. I see that at least Plazes does that now, they seem to 
> >> expect a lower case mac address... not sure if this is a new phenomenon.
> >>     
> > Does something like the attached work for you, Stefan?
> >
> > Cheers
> >   
> 
> Thanks for the patch, now I am getting:
> ** (geoclue-test-gui:6888): WARNING **: Error getting position: Could
> not understand reply from server
> ** (geoclue-test-gui:6888): WARNING **: Error getting address: Could not
> understand reply from server
> ** (geoclue-test-gui:6888): WARNING **: Error getting address: Could not
> get current gateway mac address
> 
> I also killed all /usr/libexec/geoclue-* instances and again:
> ** (geoclue-test-gui:7185): WARNING **: Error getting position: Could
> not understand reply from server
> ** (geoclue-test-gui:7185): WARNING **: Error getting address: Could not
> understand reply from server
> ** (geoclue-test-gui:7185): WARNING **: Error getting address: Could not
> get current gateway mac address
> ** (geoclue-test-gui:7185): WARNING **: Error getting position: Failed
> to query web service

Now it looks like the plazes backend changed the format of its answers,
or we have a bug in the parsing code.

Any chance you could add some debug and make it dump the response?