Blueman does not pair with several devices

[Thomas Schweikle]

The device is shown, but right clicking, then selecting "Connect" will try to connect to device. The connection will time out.

Since this worked (and works) with (x)Ubuntu 20.04.x (18.04.x) I assume it a bug with (x)Ubuntu 21.10. It even worked, but not reliable, with (x)Ubuntu 21.04 -- i had to try more than once to pair devices.

Before migrating from 21.04 to 21.10 I could pair these devices. After upgrading to 21.10 this does not work anymore at all. I've tried it with live systems from

- openSUSE tumbleweed: works (bluez 5.61, blueberry 1.4.4)
- fedora 35: works (bluez 5.61, blueberry 1.4.4)
- Ubuntu 20.04: does not pair any device: host is down (bluez 5.53, blueman 2.1.2)
- Ubuntu 21.04: works (bluez 5.56, blueman 2.1.4)
- Ubuntu 21.10: works (bluez 5.60, blueman 2.2.2)
- Ubuntu 21.10 latest updates applied: does not pair most devices (bluez 5.60, blueman 2.2.2)

Upgrading bluez to 5.61 and blueman to 2.2.3 makes it work again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: blueman 2.2.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-23.23-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu71
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Dec 30 22:17:30 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-19 (3725 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: blueman
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2019-04-27 (978 days ago)

[Thomas Schweikle (tps)]

Tried to replace blueman by blueberry. Did not help. Same errors as before. Upgrading bluez to latest stable version made it work with blueberry. Had to upgrade blueman too to the latest stable version to have it work again.

[Thomas Schweikle (tps)]

Working combination for Ubuntu 21.10 with latest updates applied:
- bluez: 5.62
- blueman: 2.2.3 or blueberry 1.4.6

all other packages as available in ubuntu repositories.