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bluez package

  1. Bug #1499858
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1499858

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frankie (frankie-etsetb) wrote : Re: bluetoothd[650]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic

This happens to me in Ubuntu 16.04. I have bluetooth dongle, when I plug it I got many messages from bluetoothd, it started with bluetoothd[8019]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic.

I temporary fixed it doing this: stop bluetooth, kill bluetoothd and obexd, start bluetooth:

$ sudo systemctl stop bluetooth
$ sudo killall -TERM bluetoothd
$ sudo killall -TERM obexd
$ sudo systemctl start bluetooth

Now when I plug the bluetooth dongle I can use it. I am pretty sure I will have to do it again when I reboot. Maybe removing the package bluez-obexd would fix it for good, but It will uninstall a lot of ubuntu dependencies so it is not an option.