Ubuntu
blueman package

  1. Bug #1754836
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1754836

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: Failed to activate service

The 25 second delay is a standard dbus timeout. I assume you're talking about:

Mar 10 11:30:25 username-MBB-44608 pulseaudio[1308]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 10 11:30:49 username-MBB-44608 pulseaudio[1150]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Failed to activate service 'org.bluez': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)

It sounds like maybe your system is launching too many instances of pulseaudio. The first works and the second fails. I'm not sure how Xubuntu differs in this respect but I don't think we see the same bug in standard Ubuntu.