bluetoothd randomly dies on Alienware M15x

[Jeff Lane ]

Binary package hint: bluez

I have an Alienware M15x that is running Natty, upgraded from Maverick, upgraded from Lucid...

Bluetoothd seems to die at random intervals. It just quietly goes away and doesn't generate a crash, so apport doesn't fire to let me know. Usually this happens after it's sat idle for a while, it never seems to happen when I'm actually on the machine using it.

The only thing I use bluetooth for is a bluetooth Magic Mouse. I don't use it for keyboard or audio.

Here's some info from my system:

This appeared on console while running bluetooth-properties when I discovered the failure this morning:
bladernr@klaatu:~$ bluetooth-properties
** Message: adding killswitch idx 3 state KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED
** Message: killswitch 3 is KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED
** Message: killswitches state KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED
** Message: killswitch 3 is KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED
** Message: killswitches state KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED
** Message: RFKILL event: idx 3 type 2 (BLUETOOTH) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 0 hard 0
** Message: killswitch 3 is KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED
** Message: killswitches state KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED
** Message: killswitch 3 is KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED
** Message: killswitches state KILLSWITCH_STATE_UNBLOCKED

If you look at Syslog, you'll see a series of tracebacks where bluetoothd dies.

I have to do a full reboot to get bluetooth working again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: bluez 4.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 7 09:16:05 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
InterestingModules: rfcomm sco bnep l2cap btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Alienware M15x
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=acc23352-13ab-4854-b1d7-a1099a5bf3a5 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-03 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/24/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Alienware
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.vendor: Alienware
dmi.board.version: A08
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Alienware
dmi.chassis.version: A08
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAlienware:bvrA08:bd08/24/2010:svnAlienware:pnM15x:pvrA08:rvnAlienware:rn:rvrA08:cvnAlienware:ct8:cvrA08:
dmi.product.name: M15x
dmi.product.version: A08
dmi.sys.vendor: Alienware
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 70:F1:A1:00:E2:11 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
  UP RUNNING PSCAN
  RX bytes:8618 acl:500 sco:0 events:43 errors:0
  TX bytes:792 acl:9 sco:0 commands:28 errors:0

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Over a year old, never addressed. Closing.