Bluetooth on Dell Inspiron 1525

[Jonathan Davies]

Binary package hint: bluez

The Bluetooth chipset on a Dell Inspiron 1525 keeps failing with the following errors in daemon.log:

Jan 6 21:58:48 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 21:58:48 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: pin_code_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 21:58:53 ubuntu-laptop NetworkManager: bluez_manager_bdaddr_removed_cb: BT device 00:22:48:DF:9A:3C removed
Jan 6 22:16:47 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:16:47 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: pin_code_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:16:52 ubuntu-laptop NetworkManager: bluez_manager_bdaddr_removed_cb: BT device 00:22:48:DF:9A:3C removed
Jan 6 22:16:55 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:16:55 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: pin_code_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:17:00 ubuntu-laptop NetworkManager: bluez_manager_bdaddr_removed_cb: BT device 00:22:48:DF:9A:3C removed
Jan 6 22:17:04 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:17:04 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: pin_code_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:17:09 ubuntu-laptop NetworkManager: bluez_manager_bdaddr_removed_cb: BT device 00:22:48:DF:9A:3C removed
Jan 6 22:17:10 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:17:10 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: pin_code_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:17:15 ubuntu-laptop NetworkManager: bluez_manager_bdaddr_removed_cb: BT device 00:22:48:DF:9A:3C removed
Jan 6 22:17:19 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:17:19 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: pin_code_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:17:24 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_notify (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C, type=0)
Jan 6 22:17:24 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: Refusing connection: setup in progress
Jan 6 22:17:46 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: /org/bluez/1279/hci0/dev_00_22_48_DF_9A_3C: error updating services: Host is down (112)
Jan 6 22:17:46 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: Host is down (112)
Jan 6 22:17:46 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:18:11 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: Host is down (112)
Jan 6 22:18:17 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:22:48:DF:9A:3C)
Jan 6 22:18:24 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:07:61:86:70:9A)
Jan 6 22:18:25 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: Refusing connection: setup in progress
Jan 6 22:18:25 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: Refusing connection: setup in progress
Jan 6 22:18:27 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:07:61:86:70:9A)
Jan 6 22:18:27 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: Refusing connection: setup in progress
Jan 6 22:18:31 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: last message repeated 4 times
Jan 6 22:18:31 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:07:61:86:70:9A)
Jan 6 22:18:31 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: Refusing connection: setup in progress
Jan 6 22:18:32 ubuntu-laptop bluetoothd[1282]: link_key_request (sba=00:0B:0D:0A:BC:35, dba=00:07:61:86:70:9A)

lsusb shows:

Bus 007 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)

Related links:

- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10326301

[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.