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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems likely this is due to having some old apps installed with the
permission, but which were using old deprecated frameworks, which were
removed in OTA12. Since those frameworks are no longer available, the
apps are got "unregistered" from the system.


On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 09:46 -0400, Pat McGowan wrote:
> Yes it is this bug, due to uninstalling an app with permissions. It
> is not new with OTA12 fwiw.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug
> /1389775
> 
> The records are in a sqlite db at
> /home/phablet/.local/share/UbuntuLocationService/trust.db so it is
> possible to manually remove the records for apps that were
> uninstalled but otherwise this is benign and can be ignored. We will
> attempt to correct existing dbs with the fix above.
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:57 AM, nick luigi eusebio <kugi_igi@yahoo.c
> om> wrote:
> > I think this is a very old bug. I assume those are uninstalled apps
> > or some apps that are not supported anymore like for example the
> > Log Viewer which doesn't show in the apps scope anymore even though
> > it's installed.
> > 
> > 
> > From: Guillaume F <marsguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Gard Honningsø <gard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubunt
> > u.com> 
> > Cc: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 2:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ghost app in location page after OTA-12
> > 
> > I have quite a lot of these as well. I've always assumed they were
> > for websites asking for your location through the web browser, but
> > that's just a guess.
> > It would be great to have a way do delete them, though.
> > 
> > Guillaume
> > 
> > Le 28/07/2016 à 14:15, Gard Honningsø a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have the same "problem" and was wondering what this was about.
> > > I have 3 "ghost" apps though. 
> > > 
> > > And for me it is not the browser it seems. The browser is listed
> > > in the list of applications.
> > > 
> > > Let me know if somebody needs further information.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > On Do, 2016-07-28 at 13:10 +0200, advocatux wrote:
> > > > Hi, after OTA-12 update there's a 'ghost' app with no icon and
> > > no
> > > > name 
> > > > asking for location.
> > > >
> > > > What is it? (Screenshot attached).
> > > >
> > > i think it is the browser and i'm pretty positive this is there
> > > since
> > > forever, iirc there is also an old bug ... definitely not OTA12
> > > related
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > ciao
> > >         oli
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