Error getting position: Router mac address query failed

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 17:50 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi,
> 
> when starting geoclue-test-gui I get this warning three times
> ** (geoclue-test-gui:22890): WARNING **: Error getting position: Router
> mac address query failed
> 
> breaking in gdb on it is not really useful, as it is not stopping the
> backend. Grep hints it comes fro plazes and/or skyhook.
> 
> $ find . -name "*.c" -exec grep -Hn "Router mac address query failed" {} \;
> ./providers/plazes/geoclue-plazes.c:134:                     "Router mac
> address query failed");
> ./providers/plazes/geoclue-plazes.c:213:                     "Router mac
> address query failed");
> ./providers/skyhook/geoclue-skyhook.c:184:                 "Router mac
> address query failed");
> 
> I have built geoclue against network manager. Is this releated to
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27894
> 
> or should I file a new bug?

Unlikely to be related. This would happen when you can't get a result
for "geoclue_connectivity_get_ap_mac()". Are you on a wired connection?

This would usually happen when NetworkManager doesn't have any cached
wireless results.