Tray icon of bluetooth-applet not updated

[Jarno Suni]

Tray icon does not change even if I switch bluetooth on/off by the context-menu item.

OS: karmic

Package: gnome-bluetooth
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.27.8-0ubuntu1

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please check if this is still an issue with 2.27.99 now in karmic. Thanks!

[Dominik George (natureshadow)]

The problem remains. Now even bluetooth-properties doesn't work anymore:

nik@portux ~ % bluetooth-properties

(bluetooth-properties:9334): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

[Dominik George (natureshadow)]

Related processes on my system:

nik@portux ~ % ps aux | grep blue
root 274 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep13 0:00 [bluetooth]
nik 8755 0.0 0.2 182752 11504 ? S 12:00 0:00 bluetooth-applet
root 9100 0.0 0.0 20188 1880 ? S<s 12:01 0:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd --udev
nik 9294 0.0 0.2 212832 11648 ? S 12:02 0:00 bluetooth-properties

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

The first .90 package had a bug. please try again after upgrading to
latest. Sorry.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:05:21AM -0000, Dominik George wrote:
> Related processes on my system:
>
> nik@portux ~ % ps aux | grep blue
> root 274 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep13 0:00 [bluetooth]
> nik 8755 0.0 0.2 182752 11504 ? S 12:00 0:00 bluetooth-applet
> root 9100 0.0 0.0 20188 1880 ? S<s 12:01 0:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd --udev
> nik 9294 0.0 0.2 212832 11648 ? S 12:02 0:00 bluetooth-properties
>

 - Alexander

[GeorgeVita (8-launchpad-mhnyma-com)]

Hi, after a clean install (daily-live of 15 Sep) and full updates, "turn ON/OFF bluetooth" is not appearing when clicking bluetooth icon. Four options are there: Send files, Browse files, Set up new device, Preference. (new installation means no bluetooth device never used).

Additional info:
g@KKsep15:~$ uname -a
Linux KKsep15 2.6.31-10-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 16 00:23:19 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
g@KKsep15:~$ ps -A | grep -i blue
  283 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth
 1492 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd
 2376 ? 00:00:01 bluetooth-apple
g@KKsep15:~$ uname -a
Linux KKsep15 2.6.31-10-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 16 00:23:19 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
g@KKsep15:~$ sudo aptitude show gnome-bluetooth
Package: gnome-bluetooth
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.27.90-0ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 2421k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>=
         0.78), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.23.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0),
         libgnome-bluetooth7 (>= 2.27.8), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libnotify1 (>= 0.4.5), libnotify1-gtk2.10, libpango1.0-0
         (>= 1.14.0), libunique-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2), bluez (>= 4.36), obexd-client
Recommends: gvfs-backends
Suggests: nautilus-sendto, gnome-user-share, geoclue
Conflicts: bluez-gnome
Description: GNOME Bluetooth tools
 This package contains tools for managing and manipulating Bluetooth devices using the GNOME desktop.

 bluetooth-applet provides an agent to ask for PIN and managing pairing with devices, together with bluetooth-properties.

 bluetooth-sendto is also included for sending files to Bluetooth devices via OBEX.
Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeBluetooth

Regards,
George
(coming from 'duplicate' bug# 420456)
g@KKsep15:~$

[Dominik George (natureshadow)]

Still no change ...

[GeorgeVita (8-launchpad-mhnyma-com)]

I am using an EeePC 1000H which has an 'integrated' bluetooth module. You can enable/disable it via BIOS setup (pressing F2 at boot).

When the bluetooth is disabled the 'bluetooth-applet' process is running but the icon is not on top panel. From System > Preferences > Bluetooth you can be informed that you have NO bluetooth connected (accepted as it is disabled from BIOS) .

When the bluetooth is enabled from BIOS, the 'bluetooth-applet' process is running and the icon appears BUT there is no on/off menu (as described on previous posted comments).

You can 'get' the 'good' menu selections doing the following:

Open a terminal window, find the process number of 'bluetooth-applet', kill it, run again 'bluetooth-applet', it is running at DEBUG mode, close the terminal window:

g@KKsep15:~$ ps -A | grep -i blue
  283 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth
 2411 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth-apple
 2429 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd
g@KKsep15:~$ sudo kill 2411
[sudo] password for g:
g@KKsep15:~$ ps -A | grep -i blue
  283 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth
 2429 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd
g@KKsep15:~$ sudo bluetooth-applet
** Message: adding killswitch idx 1 state 1
** Message: adding killswitch idx 2 state 1
** Message: Reading of RFKILL events failed
** Message: killswitch 1 is 1
** Message: killswitch 2 is 1
** Message: killswitches state 1
** Message: killswitch 1 is 1
** Message: killswitch 2 is 1
** Message: killswitches state 1

From this time menu selections change in a better way, on/off can be done BUT your 'actions' affect also BIOS flags! Turning off bluetooth module disable BIOS flag and in your next boot the module seems to be 'unpluged'.

If a developer can fix applet to be always in the 'good menu selections' (with on/off function) it helps if also:
- allow user to toggle BIOS flag ("kill switch"?) via System >Preferences > Bluetooth
- OR find the higher level flag to toggle (s/w equivalent but not the BIOS one)
- OR allow to force bluetooth icon always on top panel.

Regards,
George

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:48:20PM -0000, GeorgeVita wrote:
> g@KKsep15:~$ sudo bluetooth-applet
> ** Message: adding killswitch idx 1 state 1
> ** Message: adding killswitch idx 2 state 1
> ** Message: Reading of RFKILL events failed
> ** Message: killswitch 1 is 1
> ** Message: killswitch 2 is 1
> ** Message: killswitches state 1
> ** Message: killswitch 1 is 1
> ** Message: killswitch 2 is 1
> ** Message: killswitches state 1
>

Its a rfkill write permission issue. we will add a udev rule for that

 assign asac
 status inprogress
 importance high

 - Alexander

[Dominik George (natureshadow)]

From what I gather there are a lot mor Udev/HAL/whatever issues. I will try to add logs tomorrow.

Anyway, I think this could be considered an RC bug. When will the fix happen?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please try out 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 gnome-bluetooth which should hit your mirror soon.

see: https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-bluetooth/2.28.1-0ubuntu1

[GeorgeVita (8-launchpad-mhnyma-com)]

Hi Alexander Sack ,

gnome-bluetooth 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 tested on:
EeePC 1000H
Sony Ericsson K750 (phone)
Sony CMT-HXBT (HiFi)
Ubuntu 9.10 updated now
>>> and found full working!

Menus are OK now.
Bluetooth ON/OFF works as expected.
Connected to: phone only, phone and HiFi, doing single or multi bluetooth tasks

Tasks tested: bluetooth on/off, scan new bluetooth devices (via setup new device), connected to phone, browse/copy from phone to PC, bluetooth 'remote mouse' started, worked from phones joystick, HiFi connected, music playing from PC to HiFi

Also working ALL together: using phone's joystick as mouse to browse phone's directory (from PC screen), starting download, and at the same time listening via bluetooth music playing from PC to HiFi.

Next days I will do more tests, just in case ...
Thanks for the Great Job!

G

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

thanks for confirming. seems todays rfkill fix solved this for you.