Ubuntu thinks bluetooth is present on the system, when it's not

[Vadim Peretokin]

Unity is showing the bluetooth indicator along with an option to turn bluetooth off, however there is none physically present on the system.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: bluez 4.96-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxCommand: hcitool dev | tail -n+2 | awk '{print $2}' |grep -E "^([0-9a-fA-F]{2}\:){5}[0-9a-fA-F]{2}$"
CheckboxDescription: Output address of detected Bluetooth device, if any, or exits with error if none is found.
CheckboxTest: bluetooth/detect
Date: Sat Jan 21 13:03:46 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep bluetooth
MachineType: - N/A
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-14-generic root=UUID=5a261133-b5a0-46a2-81ff-c1af4edb821e ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1440x900-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-19 (93 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/27/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: COMPAL
dmi.bios.version: 1.13
dmi.board.name: IFL90
dmi.board.vendor: -
dmi.board.version: IFT00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: -
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnCOMPAL:bvr1.13:bd09/27/2007:svn-:pnN/A:pvrN/A:rvn-:rnIFL90:rvrIFT00:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: N/A
dmi.product.version: N/A
dmi.sys.vendor: -
hciconfig:

syslog:

[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.