Comment 16 for bug 1488170

its happening every time for me

Turn off bluetooth in the indicator
Long press power and restart
from the greeter, pull down the network indicator and enable flight mode
Once flight mode is active, disable flight mode
Close the indicator and see the bluetooth icon light up, check the indicator and its enabled

The log contains

At boot:

Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: adding killswitch type 2 idx 0 soft 0 hard 0
Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: Setting device 0 (BLUETOOTH) to blocked
Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: set_soft: Setting BLUETOOTH to blocked
Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet bluetoothd[874]: src/rfkill.c:rfkill_event() RFKILL event idx 0 type 2 op 2 soft 1 hard 0
Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet kernel: [ 10.443882]rfkill: input handler disabled
Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: <warning> Reading of RFKILL events failed
Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: Setting WLAN devices to unblocked
Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: Setting BLUETOOTH devices to blocked
Mar 11 15:18:44 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: set_soft: Setting BLUETOOTH to blocked

...

Flight mode enabled:

Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: urf_killswitch_soft_block_cb: all done
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: handle_flight_mode_killswitch: killswitch[BLUETOOTH] state: UNBLOCKED block: 1
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: Setting BLUETOOTH devices to blocked
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: set_soft: Setting BLUETOOTH to blocked
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: urf_killswitch_soft_block_cb: all done
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: handle_flight_mode_killswitch: killswitch[UWB] state: NO_ADAPTER
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: handle_flight_mode_killswitch: killswitch[WIMAX] state: NO_ADAPTER
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: handle_flight_mode_killswitch: killswitch[WWAN] state: UNBLOCKED block: 1
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: Setting WWAN devices to blocked
Mar 11 15:19:28 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: set_soft: Setting WWAN to blocked

...

Flight mode disabled:

Mar 11 15:19:54 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: Setting BLUETOOTH devices to unblocked
Mar 11 15:19:54 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: set_soft: Setting BLUETOOTH to unblocked
Mar 11 15:19:54 ubuntu-phablet bluetoothd[874]: src/rfkill.c:rfkill_event() RFKILL event idx 0 type 2 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
Mar 11 15:19:54 ubuntu-phablet URfkill[1135]: urf_killswitch_soft_block_cb: all done