Bluetooth stuck between "on" and "off"

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen]

I'm running Lucid on a June 2009 MacBook Pro. Last week or so my bluetooth still worked, but now the applet says bluetooth is on whereas the bluetooth preferences perpetually say it's off. The preferences also present me with a big "Turn On Bluetooth" button. When I click it, it is then greyed out but the window still says bluetooth is turned off. If I close the preferences window and open it again, it again invites me to push the button. My bluetooth phone does not show up in network manager like it used to.

Rebooting did not help. Bluetooth did work on the OS the system came with, including pairing & networking.

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv)]

I thought "apport-collect 592100" would attach logs and configuration information and such, but that just says "No additional information collected." Please let me know what additional information would be helpful.

[David Wood (dtwood)]

I've never noticed this problem under Lucid, but after installing Maverick I am now encountering this problem.

[David Wood (dtwood)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100602.2)
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.30.0-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-4.5-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Tags: maverick
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-4-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[David Wood (dtwood)]

apport information

[David Wood (dtwood)]

Output of lsusb -d 0a12:0001 -v:

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Device Descriptor:
  bLength 18
  bDescriptorType 1
  bcdUSB 1.10
  bDeviceClass 224 Wireless
  bDeviceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency
  bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth
  bMaxPacketSize0 16
  idVendor 0x0a12 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd
  idProduct 0x0001 Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
  bcdDevice 1.34
  iManufacturer 0
  iProduct 0
  iSerial 0
  bNumConfigurations 1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength 9
    bDescriptorType 2
    wTotalLength 108
    bNumInterfaces 2
    bConfigurationValue 1
    iConfiguration 0
    bmAttributes 0x80
      (Bus Powered)
    MaxPower 100mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength 9
      bDescriptorType 4
      bInterfaceNumber 0
      bAlternateSetting 0
      bNumEndpoints 3
      bInterfaceClass 224 Wireless
      bInterfaceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency
      bInterfaceProtocol 1 Bluetooth
      iInterface 0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength 7
        bDescriptorType 5
        bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes 3
          Transfer Type Interrupt
          Synch Type None
          Usage Type Data
        wMaxPacketSize 0x0010 1x 16 bytes
        bInterval 1
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength 7
        bDescriptorType 5
        bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN
        bmAttributes 2
          Transfer Type Bulk
          Synch Type None
          Usage Type Data
        wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
        bInterval 0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength 7
        bDescriptorType 5
        bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
        bmAttributes 2
          Transfer Type Bulk
          Synch Type None
          Usage Type Data
        wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
        bInterval 0
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength 0
      bDescriptorType 0
      bInterfaceNumber 0
      bAlternateSetting 0
      bNumEndpoints 0
      bInterfaceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
      bInterfaceSubClass 0
      bInterfaceProtocol 0
      iInterface 0
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength 0
      bDescriptorType 0
      bInterfaceNumber 0
      bAlternateSetting 0
      bNumEndpoints 0
      bInterfaceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
      bInterfaceSubClass 0
      bInterfaceProtocol 0
      iInterface 0
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength 9
      bDescriptorType 4
      bInterfaceNumber...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the stable release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed. You can find out more about it at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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