Bluetooth icon dissapears from systray after suspend

[Damian Nadales]

Binary package hint: bluez

After resuming from suspend the bluetoth icon dissapears from the system tray.

Sorry I cannot provide further information at the moment.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: bluetooth (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 9 20:49:25 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
InterestingModules: rfcomm sco bnep l2cap btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 8510w
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   3.3V 16-bit PC Card
   Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "pata_pcmcia"
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=0c2f2691-97d2-42df-9a66-7b410a096184 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bluez
dmi.bios.date: 06/24/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68MVD Ver. F.13
dmi.board.name: 30C5
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 71.36
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU825431Q
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68MVDVer.F.13:bd06/24/2008:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaq8510w:pvrF.13:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30C5:rvrKBCVersion71.36:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq 8510w
dmi.product.version: F.13
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 00:21:86:05:2A:57 ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
  UP RUNNING PSCAN
  RX bytes:966 acl:0 sco:0 events:28 errors:0
  TX bytes:365 acl:0 sco:0 commands:28 errors:0

[chrome (chrome.x86)]

Icon disappears but devices works well. I have mouse and headphones, and both work without any problem after suspend (in both cases, when they were off while resuming from suspend, and when they were on). But icon never reappears, it needs system restart to get it back.

My hardware: HP dv6-1308ew, built-in bluetooth, Ubuntu 10.10 (stock kernel).

Bluetooth module description in lsusb: "03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]".

[Matt Jabs (mattjabs)]

This is a temporary fix that you can implement without rebooting, but the bug still needs to be remedied.

After resuming from suspend the bluetooth icon will indeed be gone from the panel. That is because the process "bluetooth-applet" is not running.

To fix, press Alt+F2 to get the "Run Application" window and type in the command "bluetooth-applet" and run. The BT icon is back with all its neat features w/o having to restart the machine.

[Damian Nadales (dnadales)]

Sadly that doesn't work for me. The icon appears, but I only get a menu with two options: "Turn Off Bluetooth", and "Preferences". If I click "preferences" I get a dialog that says "Bluetooth is disabled", and a "Turn on bluetooth" button. If I press it, nothing changes, and after choosing preferences again I get the same dialog.

[Konrad Zapałowicz (kzapalowicz)]

This is reported against an old version of Ubuntu and many things has changed since then. Because of that we won't fix this issue however if this behavior repeats on a modern version please fill a bug report against it and we will take it from there.