bluetooth doesn't turn on 11.04

[MAIKO]

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

clicking on preferences menu of bluetooth and then turn on the bluetooth icon keep staying grey and there is written "bluetooth is disabled"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.91.2.is.2.32.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 4 09:18:41 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/bluetooth-applet
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-03 (0 days ago)

[dervish (dervish666)]

This affects me as well. I have upgraded from 10.10 and am using 64bit distro.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Can you please list the USB IDs for the bluetooth devices you use? The 'lsusb' command can tell you that.

[syldeb35 (sylvain-debray)]

Here is the bluetooth device I use:
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0930:0508 Toshiba Corp. Integrated Bluetooth HCI

I had installed the 2.6.39 kernel from http://ppa.launchpad.net/kernel-ppa/ppa/ubuntu
and the bluetooth works again. It also works with the 2.6.37 kernel so, I'm not sure it's related to the gnome-bluetooth.

You will also find the result of lsusb -vv in attached

thanks.

[MAIKO (maikko)]

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1690:0741 Askey Computer Corp. [hex]
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0408:1fc3 Quanta Computer, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[Luis Mondesi (lemsx1)]

same happens to me on a OQO model 02. this worked fine under 10.10.

to get it back to work i had to do:

sudo service bluetooth stop
# wait
sudo service bluetooth start
# wait
sudo service network-manager restart # so my tethering works

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Bug #751097 reports different results for different kernel versions. Other than that, this looks like a duplicate of bug 467062.

[Luca Mina (luca-mina)]

I am affected by this bug.
Fresh 11.04 installation.
gnome-bluetooth 2.91.2.is.2.32.0-0ubuntu3

[Luis Mondesi (lemsx1)]

After installing the Ubuntu 11.10 upcoming kernel, 2.6.39-3, bluetooth works for me without having to restart the daemon.