Error getting position: Router mac address query failed

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

On 25.08.2010 11:49, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
yes, I am on a wired connection and indeed if I enable wirelessI 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

Stefan