Geoclue-2.20 not working with gnome-3.16.x

[John Frankish]

> > If you would like to try to duplicate yourself, you can run tinycorelinux corepure64
> > from an iso burnt to cd and, with a wired connection, download all of the required
> > extensions (packages) to run gnome-maps - let me know if you're interested.
> 
> Interesting, why wired connection?
> 
Because wireless networking needs to be downloaded first before it can be used :)

The iso is at:

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/6.x/x86_64/release/CorePure64-6.3.iso

..and once booted from cd/dvd

$ tce-load -wil gnome-session gnome-maps-gir xf86-video-{ati, intel} [hopefully you have ati or intel graphics]
$ sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus start
$ sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/networkmanager start
$ startx

> > > > I see my location is more than 100km from my actual location in maps...
> > >
> > > That's likely cause your area's wifi networks are not in Mozilla location services database.
> > >
> > > You can easily fix that if you have an android phone:
> > >
> > > https://location.services.mozilla.com/apps
> > >
> > I'd be surprised if orange.fr was not in the database, but in France you never know...
> 
> All the WiFi data is harvested by individual contributors through that app I pointed to.
> If nobody in your neighbourhood has been running that app or driving through it with that app running,
> there is little chances of your neighbourhood wifi networks being in the database.
> 
Ah - OK, no android phones here :(

> > Note that I need to run gnome-weather as root to get location services to work with it and creating an entry in geoclue.conf does not help.
> >
> > I guess I need to modify either of:
> >
> > /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Weather.Application.service
> > /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Weather.BackgroundService.service
> > 
> > ..to run as root, but is this the correct way to fix this?
> 
> Not at all. What I think is happening is that when you connect as root,
> geoclue doens't have an agent for that user (gnome-shell is running as normal user)
> so it doesn't ask agent. As for why it's not working, I'm once again stumped cause it really should be working.

OK, let me know if you'd like me to try something.