bluez-simple-agent crashes

[gregrwm]

bluez-simple-agent crashes, in utopic, on a fresh install and fresh boot. same crash after updating packages and reboot:

$ bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:0C:8A:AA:FE:70 x
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/bluez-simple-agent", line 127, in <module>
    device = adapter.FindDevice(args[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.bluez.Error.DoesNotExist: Does Not Exist

this appears similar to Bug #1227584, but the dbus exception is not the same.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: bluez 4.101-0ubuntu20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-29.39-generic 3.16.7-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-29-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Wed Jan 14 20:30:08 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-11 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release i386 (20141022.1)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz ro root=UUID=9212f425-c8f3-4c80-8d62-41faf2b27d30 panic=30
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/09/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: K8M800-8237
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd01/09/2008:svn:pn:pvr:rvn:rnK8M800-8237:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 00:15:83:6A:58:96 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
  UP RUNNING PSCAN
  RX bytes:1170 acl:0 sco:0 events:65 errors:0
  TX bytes:1056 acl:0 sco:0 commands:65 errors:0
mtime.conffile..etc.bluetooth.audio.conf: 2015-01-11T15:59:05.078489
rfkill:
 0: hci0: Bluetooth
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no

[gregrwm (gregrwm)]

same in vivid live iso

[gregrwm (gregrwm)]

btw sometimes it does not crash. i do not know the difference between when it crashes and when it does not. i can only say when it fails, calling it repeatedly in sequence seems to keep yielding the same failure, but at another time, it may work.

[gregrwm (gregrwm)]

it seems under utopic it works fine, while under vivid it works for my Bose SLIII but crashes for my 8XXPlantronics.

[gregrwm (gregrwm)]

ok apparently if blueman has already paired the device, then simple-agent will succeed without crashing. kind of defeats the purpose tho.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 14.10 (utopic) reached end-of-life on July 23, 2015.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for bluez (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]