# Qemu - mender-inventory-geo problem

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/qemu-mender-inventory-geo-problem/7876>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** mender-client, bug\
**Created:** [July 7, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/qemu-mender-inventory-geo-problem/7876 "2025-07-07T09:24:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![simonbuehler](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/simonbuehler/32/1828_2.png) [@simonbuehler](https://hub.mender.io/u/simonbuehler)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/qemu-mender-inventory-geo-problem/7876/1 "2025-07-07T09:24:39Z")

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Hi,

just found this in the logs, i guess the busybox version of wget just doesn’t know the `--tries` parameter so it bails out:

```js
Jul 7 09:03:10 qemux86-64 mender-update[329]: record_id=14 severity=error time="2025-Jul-07 09:03:10.865720" name="Global" msg="'/usr/share/mender/inventory/mender-inventory-mender-configure' failed: Process exited with status 1"
Jul 7 09:03:10 qemux86-64 mender-update[727]: wget: unrecognized option '--tries=2'
Jul 7 09:03:10 qemux86-64 mender-update[727]: BusyBox v1.36.1 () multi-call binary.
Jul 7 09:03:10 qemux86-64 mender-update[727]: Usage: wget [-cqS] [--spider] [-O FILE] [-o LOGFILE] [--header STR]
Jul 7 09:03:10 qemux86-64 mender-update[727]: [--post-data STR | --post-file FILE] [-Y on/off]
Jul 7 09:03:10 qemux86-64 mender-update[727]: [-P DIR] [-U AGENT] [-T SEC] URL...
Jul 7 09:03:11 qemux86-64 mender-update[724]: /usr/share/mender/inventory/mender-inventory-geo: Unable to get IP info from ipinfo.io
Jul 7 09:03:11 qemux86-64 mender-update[329]: record_id=15 severity=error time="2025-Jul-07 09:03:10.989715" name="Global" msg="'/usr/share/mender/inventory/mender-inventory-geo' failed: Process exited with status 2"

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hope this is the right place for feedback, greets!