Option to connect Bluetooth PAN forever disappears from NM indicator if connection is broken; de- and re-Enable Networking fixes it

[Binoy Babu]

Option to connect to PAN network in network indicater in status disappears forever when device disconnects accidently. Eg. When remote device goes out of range, Remote device's bluetooth is powered off. I'm connecting to PAN network of an Android device. The otion don't reappear again even when the device is up and running and in range.

To fix I have to disable wireless, disable networking, enable networking, enable wireless in that order.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-17ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-15.24-generic-pae 3.2.5
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-15-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 21 07:56:15 2012
ExecutablePath: /sbin/dhclient
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120214)
ProcAttrCurrent: /sbin/dhclient (enforce)
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
SourcePackage: isc-dhcp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Binoy Babu (royale1223)]

I need not restart the system to re-enable the option. Just have to disable wireless, disable networking, enable networking, enable wireless in that order.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[vladi.boffi (vladi-boffi)]

Some problem on virtualbox PC whit pae kernel:
Linux tam 3.2.0-30-generic-pae #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 17:14:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

this not happens on running AMD64 kernel

ciao

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

"sudo service network-manager restart" brings the bluetooth connection entry back for me