Need to delete and re-add bluetooth mouse on every reboot

[Pete Goodall]

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

Everytime I reboot I have to delete and re-add my bluetooth mouse. When I oclick on the bluetooth applet I can see the Bluetooth mouse is configured, but clicking on "Connect" does nothing (seemingly). If I open the gnome-bluetooth-properties widow and move the mouse I can see the mouse is trying to connect. The device flickers on and off repeatedly as I move the mouse and/or click buttons but never actually stays connected. I delete the configured mouse device and reconfigure it and it works fine.

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 10:35:53 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)

[Pete Goodall (pgoodall)]

This also seems to happen if I go out of range of my mouse. Upon returning I cannot reconnect the mouse.

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

hmm, I would suggest tailing / monitoring output of the org.bluez various interfaces on the system DBus.
I can have a look in the morning Pete.

Conor

[showgun (showgun)]

Same problem here every time I power on my Laptop I had I have to manually delete and restart for my mouse to work and sometimes I have to restart the laptop but restarting the laptop the mouse always the problem is only when I first power on.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

I get this too on boot, although it's pretty much off and on -- sometimes the mouse will just stay connected and be properly recognized, I haven't really been able to match it to a particular cause.

Pete, can you please provide us with the output of 'lsusb' so we can match this to a particular device, too?

I think there is more than one problem here: there's unreliability, and how the device "flickers" and doesn't keep a stable connection, and one for mice not being detected at boot-up. They should have a separate bug opened, and should be treated separately.

[showgun (showgun)]

My problem is similar when I first boot and if I reboot it usually solves it or sometimes turning the applet on and off and on again a few times and than selecting connect will fix it.

Fresh install Ubuntu Beta 1 been like now running full ubuntu 11.04 Kernel 2.6.38-8-generic

I would like to add this is a problem that started in 10.10.....
This is a very annoying problem and should be consider high importance when you have been dealing with this type of problem over one Ubuntu upgrade
I know this problem does not exit in latest Debian

[franco_bez (franco-bez)]

Since I upgraded to natty the bluetooth mouse does no longer get auto-connected when I switch it on.
I found that pressing the "connect" Button on the mouse and then choosing "connect" from the bluetooth-applets context menu temporarily fixes the problem until the next reboot.

[franco_bez (franco-bez)]

It seems to be fixed in oneiric
I can no longer reproduce the bug.

[Bastes (michel-belleville)]

I'm on oneiric and I've got the exact same bug.