Bluetooth fails to connect to phone: "obex://[mac:address]" is not a valid location.

[Aaron C. de Bruyn]

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

I hit "Browse Device" on the bluetooth icon, pick my phone, and click 'connect'.
The dialog disappears and a few seconds later I get an error message:
"obex://[ma:ca:dd:re:ss]" is not a valid location

If I install gnome-phone-manager and tell it how to connect to my phone, the process is successful.

$ dpkg -l | grep bluetooth

ii libbluetooth2 3.18-0ubuntu1 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth sta

ii libkbluetooth0 1.0~beta6~r709825-0ubuntu1 shared libs for kdebluetooth

ii libmultisync-plugin-irmc-bluetooth 0.82-8build1 Adds Bluetooth support to the IrMC plugin

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1131:1001 Integrated System Solution Corp. KY-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter

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  idVendor 0x1131 Integrated System Solution Corp.

  idProduct 0x1001 KY-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter

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[Johan Ryberg (jryberg)]

I tried to add a blue tooth head set with the same error message.

I'm using fully updated Ubuntu 7.10 tribe 5

Please tell me if I shall provide further information because I don't know what's important to know about this issue.

[Aaron C. de Bruyn (darkpixel2k)]

It appears gnome-bluetooth needs to depend on gnome-vfs-obexftp. Installing that fixed the initial error.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

yes, installing gnome-vfs-obexftp fixes this issue as Aaron says.
gnome-vfs-obexftp is a universe package though and bluez-gnome is in main, so maybe bluez-gnome should at least Recommends gnome-vfs-obexftp ?

[BullCreek (jeff-openenergy)]

FWIW, this is still a problem with gutsy latest (BETA + all updates) - but the above workaround still works.

[Stephen Crosby (stevecrozz)]

This is still a problem on latest Gutsy, the option to "browse device" does not work as advertised without installing package "gnome-vfs-obexftp". The dependency should be fixed, if the package can't be merged into main the "browse device" option should lead to a message to indicate which package is needed.

[Joshua Hesketh (joshua.hesketh)]

Looks like this bug made it into the final release of gutsy. This is unfortunate since I was very impressed about having the new bluetooth utilities by default, it really makes things more seemless.

Would be nice to have a more descriptive warning dialog as others have suggested, but it is probably too late for that now.

[Fırat Küçük (firatkucuk)]

i installed gnome-vfs-obexftp and libopenobex1

it is working.

but this packages should be installed default with gnome-bluetooth services.