Bluetooth dongle requires restart of bluetooth service

[Pete Goodall]

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

When inserting my bluetooth dongle the bluetooth applet appears, but is greyed out. When I click on the applet it just says, "Turn on bluetooth". If I click "Turn on Bluetooth" I get a dialog with a big "Turn on Bluetooth" button but clicking the button does nothing. If I restart the bluetooth service, however, everything works again. Seems like a race condition to me.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.91.2.is.2.32.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.36-generic-pae 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 22 10:23:53 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110218)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bram Bonné (brambonne)]

This bug also occurs with the internal bluetooth in my laptop. Turning bluetooth off via the menu, waiting 5 seconds, and turning it back on again solves the issue for this login session. Clicking on the big "Turn on Bluetooth" button does nothing for me.

[MathieuF (garf-garf)]

I also experience the same issues.

lsusb output:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0930:0508 Toshiba Corp. Integrated Bluetooth HCI

Upon reboot, I have to restart the bluetooth service to get my bluetooth device being connected.

Using 11.04 Natty Narwhal beta2

mathieu:~$ uname -a
Linux laptop 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

mathieu:~$ dpkg -l bluez
Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
| État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé/W=attend-traitement-déclenchements
|/ Err?=(aucune)/besoin Réinstallation (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais)
||/ Nom Version Description
+++-============-=============-============================
ii bluez 4.91-0ubuntu1 Bluetooth tools and daemons

[B.J. Stobiecki (bjfs)]

This also affects my Amilo Si 1520 32-bit machine. Restarting the bluetooth daemon does the trick. People complain about that on alt.os.linux.ubuntu newsgroup as well.

The problem began during the upgrade from Maverick to Natty, as probably some new package makes the whole mess...

[Michael Bewley (michael-bewley)]

I have two bluetooth dongles:

The one that came with my Logitech MX1000 Mouse and MX5000 keyboard. It used to work fine (definitely not since Maverick, not sure how long before that). At the login screen, the mouse worked, but the keyboard didn't (both paired and trusted). Removing the dongle and replacing it didn't fix the problem, but if I held the red button in while replacing it, it works every time.

So, I bought a new bluetooth dongle, thinking it was a wierd logitech thing. With this one, neither the mouse or keyboard work at login, and I have to restart the bluetooth service to fix it.

I assume these have the same root cause! Pretty annoying that I have to dig out an old wired keyboard to get it up and running...

[AceLan Kao (acelankao)]

Hi,

Could you try below kernel to see if that fix the problem?
http://people.canonical.com/~acelan/bugs/lp740090/