redshift Redshift GTK no longer connecting to location provider

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

Jun 22 '24 15:06 agentl074

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

Jun 23 '24 21:06 huguesjohnson

same issue here on linux mint 21.3 cinnamon

Jun 27 '24 02:06 defensem3ch

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

Jun 28 '24 03:06 deoxal

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#

Oh.

Jul 07 '24 20:07 ledufff

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

https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/318#issuecomment-1014234929

Jul 10 '24 00:07 0HAg0

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

Jul 10 '24 01:07 agentl074

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.

Aug 02 '24 18:08 Kails0

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

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

sudo apt install redshift-gtk

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

Do

sudo service geoclue restart

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

Aug 13 '24 02:08 unxed

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...

Aug 13 '24 17:08 Raffles727

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.

Aug 13 '24 17:08 unxed

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.

Aug 13 '24 18:08 Raffles727

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 https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/903 https://github.com/droidian/geoclue/issues/1

Jan 27 '25 22:01 unxed