bluetooth will not reconnect after first disconnect

[km]

Bluetooth had been working well for me until recently. I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with a bluetooth USB dongle that I use to pair with various headphones.

Suddenly, after the first successful connection to the headphone, once I disconnect either from the headphone side or the computer side, the headphones will no longer reconnect.

I've found that to reconnect, I need to

     stop bluetooth;rmmod bnep btusb rfcomm bluetooth ; start bluetooth

then remove and reinsert the bluetooth USB dongle. Then I can reconnect.

I've been using the same hardware for quite a while and this problem is very recent. The only software changes are by the patches which I always accept.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: bluez 4.101-0ubuntu8b1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42-generic 3.8.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 14 10:34:08 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-14 (242 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
InterestingModules: btusb rfcomm bnep bluetooth
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Z210 Workstation
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 TERM=linux
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-29-generic root=UUID=0659f1b3-4361-442f-bf62-b9b3393a3b95 ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-27 (109 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/27/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: J51 v01.44
dmi.board.asset.tag: 2UA145126W
dmi.board.name: 1588h
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 2UA145126W
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrJ51v01.44:bd11/27/2012:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPZ210Workstation:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1588h:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Z210 Workstation
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 00:18:E4:0D:18:12 ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
  UP RUNNING PSCAN
  RX bytes:87163 acl:36 sco:1679 events:79 errors:0
  TX bytes:86224 acl:41 sco:1666 commands:22 errors:0
rfkill:
 1: hci0: Bluetooth
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no

[km (km-mathcs)]

It turns out the problem was the blueman package. I deleted it an now bluetooth is working as before. Its been installed for a very long time, but apparently something recent caused a problem when a bluetooth audio device disconnected.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Thanks, closing as Invalid.