Geolocation behaving strangely.

[Ryan Swart]

Hello,

I have been developing an html5 application that uses the navigator.geolocation alongside the Google Maps api. Everything has been going well, until suddenly, Chromium on my laptop (the default Ubuntu 12.10 package) refuses to return Geolocation data, failing with this error object:

 PositionError {message: "Network location provider at 'https://www.googleapis.com/' : Returned error code 403.", code: 2, PERMISSION_DENIED: 1, POSITION_UNAVAILABLE: 2, TIMEOUT: 3} )

Geolocation works fine in Firefox, and fine on Chrome on my Windows PC, so it's not network related.

Bizarrely, geolocation also fails in Chrome on the android phone I have been using to debug the phonegap/cordova version of the application! Works fine in Firefox and the native Google Maps application, but returns that same error whenever I try and use geolocation in Chrome or the native ICS browser.

Have I somehow been blocked from the location provider? 

[Constantinos Kotsokalis]

Hi,

Exactly the same problem in my case. Since a few days ago, with Chromium default package on Mint (I believe the package is inherited by Ubuntu). Other OS/browsers on the same network have no issues; even Chrome on iPad works fine.

  Costas

[Koen Schmeets]

Got exactly the same problem (also Ubuntu, on the beta chome)

Including on chrome on android phone (latest version)

It started happening after I installed the beta chromium (it does work correctly there).

Is this something you did too?

I am in the Netherlands btw, Ziggo is my provider.

[Koen Schmeets]

(also Ubuntu, on the beta chome) should be (also Ubuntu, on the default chomium-browser from the package manager)

[Constantinos Kotsokalis]

No, never tried to install the beta. Just using vanilla chromium packages on Mint.
For me the last update was on Feb 04, v. 24.0.1312.56-0ubuntu0.12.04.1.

[Ryan Swart]

Ok, I made an issue for this bug here, please Star it: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=179686

[Paweł Hajdan Jr.]

This is a packaging issue on Ubuntu side. Please make the Ubuntu packagers contact me for more info.

Paweł

[Bharath Thiruveedula]

But I also got the same issue in windows 8, Now can you think it is because of some problem with packing system in ubuntu?

[PhistucK]

I get this on Windows XP and Windows 7 - but only at work.

☆PhistucK

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