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bluez package

Switch off bluetooth command missing

Bug #631162 reported by igi on 2010-09-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #629452: can not disable bluetooth in applet menu. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bluez (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: bluez

In the Maverick 10.10 Beta1, the "Switchoff bluetooth" menu item has disappeared from the bluetooth applet.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: bluetooth 4.69-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 5 23:58:44 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterestingModules: rfcomm sco bnep l2cap btusb bluetooth
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic root=UUID=78a63954-9db8-49d8-b682-763491d44e72 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=it_IT.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bluez
dmi.bios.date: 03/20/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0801
dmi.board.name: P5GPL
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0801:bd03/20/2006:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5GPL:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 00:09:DD:50:2E:A9 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
  UP RUNNING PSCAN
  RX bytes:984 acl:0 sco:0 events:30 errors:0
  TX bytes:376 acl:0 sco:0 commands:29 errors:0
rfkill:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no

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igi (igor-cali) wrote on 2010-09-05:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (47.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (616 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (101.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (229.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
syslog.txt Edit (5.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Luiz Fernando (fernando-figz) wrote on 2010-09-10:

Please devs, have a look into this. I'm using "rfkill block bluetooth" on /etc/rc.local in order to disable bluetooth at boot time in order to save battery on my laptop, since I don't use bluetooth much, but when I do need it, I have no other way to enable bluetooth now other than going into the prompt and enabling it with "rfkill unblock bluetooth". In fact, right now, there's absolutely no GUI to disable or enable bluetooth. It's a glaring defect that shouldn't be overlooked, for better battery use optimization alone.