Blueman: tethering using PAN doesn't work

[tim474]

I can not use mobile phone as modem through bluetooth using PAN ("Network Access Point" in context menu in blueman) in blueman. If in "Local Services" I choose using Network Manager, when I try to connect, blueman writes:

Соединение невозможно или разорвано: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "<string>", line 2, in ServiceProxy
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/DBusService.py", line 121, in ServiceProxy
    self.Applet.Plugins.RunEx("service_connect_handler", cb, interface, object_path, _method, args, ok, err)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blueman/main/PluginManager.py", line 231, in RunEx
    ret = getattr(inst, function)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/NMPANSupport.py", line 333, in service_connect_handler
    conn = self.find_active_connection(d.Address, "panu")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/NMPANSupport.py", line 290, in find_active_connection
    nma_connection = self.find_connection(address, type)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/NMPANSupport.py", line 278, in find_connection
    conns = self.nma.ListConnections()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ListConnections'

If I don't use NM, there is connection "bnep0", but it is not configured. If I can turn off this connection in Blueman, Blueman hungs.

In Ubuntu 11.04 it had worked. I tried to install previous version of blueman from Natty repositories and newer (1.23) version from ppa. But there is some trouble with these versions.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: blueman 1.22~bzr707-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.21~ppa4~loms~oneiric-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 1 12:55:26 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: blueman
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bengt (bengt-redhat-bugs)]

abrt 1.0.9 detected a crash.

architecture: x86_64
cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/blueman-applet
component: blueman
executable: /usr/bin/blueman-applet
kernel: 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64
package: blueman-1.21-4.fc12
reason: NMPANSupport.py:267:find_connection:AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ListConnections'
release: Fedora release 12 (Constantine)

backtrace
-----
NMPANSupport.py:267:find_connection:AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ListConnections'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/RecentConns.py", line 298, in on_item_activated
    self.Applet.DbusSvc.ServiceProxy(item["service"], item["device"].GetObjectPath(), "Connect", item["conn_args"], reply, err)
  File "<string>", line 2, in ServiceProxy
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/DBusService.py", line 119, in ServiceProxy
    self.Applet.Plugins.RunEx("service_connect_handler", cb, interface, object_path, _method, args, ok, err)
  File "/usr/bin/blueman-applet", line 278, in RunEx
    ret = getattr(inst, function)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/NMPANSupport.py", line 322, in service_connect_handler
    conn = self.find_active_connection(d.Address, "panu")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/NMPANSupport.py", line 279, in find_active_connection
    nma_connection = self.find_connection(address, type)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/NMPANSupport.py", line 267, in find_connection
    conns = self.nma.ListConnections()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ListConnections'

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <blueman.plugins.applet.NMPANSupport.NMPANSupport object at 0x29a0a10>
t: 'panu'
address: dbus.String(u'04:1E:64:70:AD:DC', variant_level=1)

[Bengt (bengt-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 423153
File: backtrace

[Bengt (bengt-redhat-bugs)]

The crash happens as soon as the Ihpone ( 3GS ) paires .
I have deletet the units on both sides, restart the PC, restart the Iphone and repairing again in order to find out which part of the bluetoth SW causes the crash.
Most of the cases it is the blueman-manager but as in this case the aplet

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

[tim474 (tim474)]

Why nobody answers (not only on this site)? Is this problem affect only me? Or nobody uses telephone as modem via Bluetooth?

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

blueman-1.23-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/blueman-1.23-1.fc17

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blueman-1.23-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/blueman-1.23-1.fc16

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blueman-1.23-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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blueman-1.23-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

[Gary Richards (ashak)]

No useful input from me i'm afraid, just that Debian Wheezy seems to exhibit the exact same problem.

Including it here on the chance that someone there works out what the problem is

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658572

[Jani Uusitalo (uusijani)]

Here's a patch that worked for me. It adds some lines to what becomes /usr/share/pyshared/blueman/plugins/applet/NMPANSupport.py during installation, to set up variables that are otherwise left initialized to 'None', hence the error when they're used later on.

Note that I don't know anything about DBus, have barely glimpsed at Python prior to this, and in particular have no knowledge of how Blueman's developer intended for things to work, so apply at your own risk.

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[netAction (launchpad-netaction)]

The patch from Jani Uusitalo works here. Ubuntu 12.04, Galaxy S3 / CyanogenMod 9

[Honza Javorek (honzajavorek)]

Come on! Why this is not in the newest Xubuntu? I upgraded whole system just to get this repaired. It is so annoying that I can't use tethering with my phone only because of this little bug and releasing it's fix takes ages!