geoclue2 failing to find /etc/geoclue/conf.d

[fzakaria]

Describe the bug

My geoclue2 service was emitting the following message:

Jul 15 19:25:18 nyx .geoclue-wrappe[2170]: Failed to open /etc/geoclue/conf.d/: Error opening directory “/etc/geoclue/conf.d/”: No such file or directory

I got around it with

  environment.etc."geoclue/conf.d/.valid" = {
    text = "created the directory.";
  };

Expected behavior

The service shouldn't be emitting such messages

Notify maintainers

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
output here

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[stephen-huan]

Since the fix is one line, I added it to #329654 although the PR is unrelated.

I've decided to use the home-manager convention of an empty .keep file placed in the directory.

[rvl]

I opened an upstream issue because I think this is more a bug in Geoclue than NixOS.

[stephen-huan]

It looks like it has already been fixed and will probably appear in the next release.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/169

Since this issue was mostly cosmetic in the first place, I'll remove the fix from the PR.

[Axolord]

Can we back port that fix from #352480 to 24.05?

[zane-weissman]

Can we back port that fix from #352480 to 24.05?

Not sure what the backporting policy is for nixpkgs, but in the meantime you can easily include a package from the unstable channel.