Unable to connect to Bluetooth Stereo Headset

[Damiön la Bagh]

Binary package hint: bluez

I was playing with the new Nokia N900 Maemo (debian based), who has some serious issues with bluetooth at the moment.

So I tried my Ubuntu Karmic Netbook Remix bluetooth with my iTech BluePro stereo headset. Low and behold Karmic has the same issue. (the headset works in Symbian and Windows, and connects to Maemo but is choppy with A2DP playback)

When I use the bluetooth wizard it connects to the device but then comes back with Setup of Device Failed. (error message needs to be improved to say exactly what in the set up failed).

In the syslog output I can see it sending the PIN then disconnecting from the device

tail of the syslog
Dec 17 21:14:29 sungkai bluetoothd[1584]: link_key_request (sba=00:24:2C:DC:3A:79, dba=00:0D:3C:35:BD:5F)
Dec 17 21:14:29 sungkai bluetoothd[1584]: pin_code_request (sba=00:24:2C:DC:3A:79, dba=00:0D:3C:35:BD:5F)
Dec 17 21:14:29 sungkai bluetoothd[1584]: Stopping discovery

So two things:
Error messages need to be improved
and
A solution to why the device will not connect to Karmic.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 17 21:00:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: bluetooth 4.51-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: bluez
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Damiön la Bagh (kat-amsterdam)]

Extra info:
Device is Bluetooth 1.2 class 2
Supporting A2DP, AVRCP

[Konrad Zapałowicz (kzapalowicz)]

This is reported against an old version of Ubuntu and many things has changed since then. Because of that we won't fix this issue however if this behavior repeats on a modern version please fill a bug report against it and we will take it from there.