Bluetooth in Hardy not working with Logitech diNovo keyboard

[Roger]

I have no way of connecting my diNovo keyboard via bluetooth on a completely up-to-date Hardy with the 3.26-0ubuntu3 bluetooth metapackage and the 0.23-0ubuntu3 bluez-gnome package. Going to the Services tab of Bluetooth Preferences (bluetooth-properties), marking Input service and clicking on Add doesn't work. The keyboard does show up in the list (though it's incorrectly labelled a Logitech MX900 Mouse - it came in a package with an MX900 mouse). When I try to connect to it and eneter a PIN code for pairing, however, the Bluetooth GUI simply crashes after 5 or 10 seconds of "connecting..." Clearing out the list of bonded devices beforehand is no help. I still cannot get it to connect.

This is the error I get running bluetooth-properties from the terminal:

process 8385: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_path (path)" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1074.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

** ERROR **: Out of memory
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)

My bluetooth mouse, on the other hand, works splendidly. What's more, this used to be the case with the keyboard as well, back in Edgy or Feisty, once I'd edited a few conf files and paired the devices manually with hidd --search. So it shold work. But it doesn't. Any ideas as to what could be done?

Roger

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv)]

I get the same thing with an aluminum Apple keyboard, on amd64 builds of both Gutsy and Hardy. Attempts to connect using hidd in Gutsy always timed out without prompting for a passkey (I don't seem to have hidd now that I've upgraded to Hardy).

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Roger, it's been a good two weeks since you reported this. Can you apply the latest Hardy updates and see if the problem is still there ?

I would suggest you try the pairing method documented here (the title is BT Mouse but this is the same for keyboards):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothMouse

Thank you.

[Roger (r-wiberg)]

Yes, the pairing started to work two (?) updates ago, and still seems to
be working fine with the new 2.6.24-14 kernel. The only remaining
problem is that I have to re-pair the devices - or at least one of them
- if I leave the computer for any sustained period of time. But that's
a minor nuisance in coamparison. Good work!

Roger

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 21:53 +0000, Fabián Rodríguez wrote:
> Roger, it's been a good two weeks since you reported this. Can you apply
> the latest Hardy updates and see if the problem is still there ?
>
> I would suggest you try the pairing method documented here (the title is BT Mouse but this is the same for keyboards):
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothMouse
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> ** Changed in: bluez-utils (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Roger thank you. I' ve marked this as a duplicate of Bug #123920, which is confirmed and being worked on.