bluetoothd needs to be restarted to get bluetooth to work

[Torsten Römer]

Binary package hint: bluez

This seems to be a regression.
When I start my notebook, bluetooth is disabled and I switch it on once Ubuntu is started. Until some days ago, the bluetooth symbol appeared in the notification area and my travel mouse worked after a few seconds.
Since a couple of days, after an update with the update-manager, the bluetooth symbol appears after switching the device on and the bluetooth-applet says it is on, but it is actually off. If I go to the settings, it says it is disabled and there is a huge button to enable it, but clicking it does nothing besides that the button gets disabled.
When I kill the process "/usr/sbin/bluetoothd --udev" and start it again, bluetooth gets turned on/enabled and all works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: bluez 4.87-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 5 19:06:17 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
InterestingModules: rfcomm sco bnep l2cap btusb bluetooth
MachineType: BenQ Joybook S73
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-1-generic root=UUID=434bc615-3056-43ee-8b57-4fb157e47346 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
dmi.bios.date: 12/28/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: R4.00
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Joybook S73
dmi.board.vendor: BenQ
dmi.board.version: 1.00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Chassis Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacturer
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvrR4.00:bd12/28/2006:svnBenQ:pnJoybookS73:pvr1:rvnBenQ:rnJoybookS73:rvr1.00:cvnChassisManufacturer:ct1:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: Joybook S73
dmi.product.version: 1
dmi.sys.vendor: BenQ
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 00:10:60:D0:20:0F ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
  UP RUNNING PSCAN
  RX bytes:32811 acl:2110 sco:0 events:45 errors:0
  TX bytes:586 acl:11 sco:0 commands:27 errors:0

[nasraty-jebak (dusoft)]

I confirm. Bluetooth is always disabled on boot, "/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart" enables it. Until then KDE is unable to work with it and says there is no bluetooth adapter found.

Linux xxxxx 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~$ lsmod|grep blue
bluetooth 72448 9 rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb

~$ rfkill list
0: Toshiba Bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

[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.