Redshift GTK no longer connecting to location provider

[agentl074]

This service has been working fine until recently.

"Failed to run Redshift
Trying location provider ‘geoclue2’
Waiting for initial location to become available
poll: Interrupted system call
Unable to get location from provider"

Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon -- Native Redshift and Redshift GTK

[huguesjohnson]

Same issue on Ubuntu 22.04 - also started on the same day the issue was filed.

[defensem3ch]

same issue here on linux mint 21.3 cinnamon

[deoxal]

It never connected for me, I had to manually control it but that doesn't even work any more on Mint 21.3

[ledufff]

mozilla/ichnaea#2065

Oh.

[0HAg0]

There is no sign, that Redshift is being maintained, but this workaround works great in Linux Mint 21.1.

#318 (comment)

[agentl074]

I figured out a workaround with Mint. I removed Redshift GTK and installed QRedShift applet, and all is well for now.

[Kails0]

The problem seems Geoclue, specifically Geoclue uses Mozilla Location Service, that has been discontinued.
sources:

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/issues/186
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/issues/183

So we need to wait for an update from geoclue devs.

[unxed]

Linux Mint 22 (solution should work with Ubuntu 24.04 also):

1. Install redshift-gtk (it is now not a part of standard distribution):

sudo apt install redshift-gtk

2. Create file

/etc/geolocation

with the following content:

52.5200 # your latitude
13.4050 # your longitude
0 # altitude, set it to 0
1 # accuracy, set it to 1

4. Do

sudo service geoclue restart

5. Restart redshift or redshift-gtk or just log out and log in again.

[Raffles727]

sudo service geoclue restart

Do I make the file "geolocation" executable? I did your suggestion but nothing has changed.
BTW there is a geolocation service running on my machine as I can get the weather for my city with inxi.
geoclue-2.0 is installed.
I also made a .config/redshift/redshift.conf flie according to what the author posted somewhere.
This is what I get when I run redshift from the command line, it just hangs there and the gui says

raffles@raffles-GL552VW-DH74:~$ redshift
Trying location provider geoclue2'... Using provider geoclue2'.
Could not connect to wayland display, exiting.
Failed to start adjustment method wayland.
Trying next method...
Using method `randr'.
Waiting for initial location to become available...

[unxed]

Make sure you have

[static-source]

# Enable the static source
# If you make use of this source, you probably should disable other location
# sources in this file so they won't override the configured static location.
enable=true

in

/etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf

Do I make the file "geolocation" executable?

No.

[Raffles727]

In addition to the above information, Maybe it's because I am using Librewolf browser. Firefox is not installed. Librewolf is a fork of Firefox.

[unxed]

The method above stopped working for me, so this is a new one.

Create a file ~/.config/redshift.conf with the following content:

[redshift]
location-provider=manual

[manual]
lat=49.98
lon=8.43

(replace lat and lon to your actual latitude and longitude)

NB! The correct path is ~/.config/redshift.conf, NOT ~/.config/redshift/redshift.conf

I also propose using another method of location determination, see
#903
droidian/geoclue#1