Cannot turn on bluetooth after turning it off from the indicator

[Cassidy James Blaede]

Bluetooth is enabled out of the box and works great. However, since disabling it from the indicator, I'm unable to re-enable it. The indicator shows as enabled, but in Switchboard it shows as disabled. The GTK switch to enable it won't go past halfway on, then snaps back to off.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

For me, the switch in the Bluetooth gnomecc plug does not update itself to reflect the status until it (the plug) is closed and opened again.

[RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a)]

From a duplicate:

"I found out, turning it on works (by clicking on the greyed out On-switch), when turned off using the applet. However the plug does not show this.

Also, there is now way to pair a device, bluetooth-wizard is also not working

Here is a screenshot with bluetooth adapter plugged in and turned on (according to the applet and after running bluetooth in terminal, which returns:
andreas@andreas-luna:~$ bluetooth
bluetooth = on
)"

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Doesn't this panel come from GNOME Control Center?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, what ubuntu version do you use and what indicator?

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

The bug has been observed on elementary OS Luna based on Ubuntu 12.04, the package version is 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.9

elementary ships some patches for the package but they don't affect the Bluetooth panel. The patches can be found at lp:~elementary-os/elementaryos/os-patch-gnome-control-center-precise

I'll see if I can confirm the bug on a vanilla 12.04 installation

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rene Arts (renearts)]

I am observing similar behaviour. I experienced a strange quirk: when BT is turned of and my laptop has been in sleep/hibernate mode I have exact the same behaviour as you describe: when BT is switched on I cannot see any devices and the switch is off in the control center. When I put my laptop into sleep mode and log in again, while leaving the BT indicator switched on, BT suddenly works like a charm again: I can see devices and switch it on/off with both the indicator as well as in the control center.
I am able to reproduce this every time I try.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Just an additional debug: this isn't related to the bluetooth indicator, even stopping the service (and not letting it restart), this behavior of "turning off immediately" will still be present.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Let's use bug 1857787 now since it's more complete.