[Vostro 3550] Bluetooth applet showing even though system has no bluetooth
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bluez (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
View the attached screenshot and note the following:
1: Bluetooth icon is in the panel
2: terminal shows hcitool dev returns no device, and ps output shows bluetooth applet and bluetoothd running
3: bluetooth config tool shows it's disabled
This system, as far as I can tell, has no bluetooth controller, yet the icon and bluetoothd are still running and visible. This also caused the bluetooth/detect to fail in Checkbox. That test does the following:
command: hcitool dev | tail -n+2 | awk '{print $2}' |grep -E "^([0-9a-
description: Output address of detected Bluetooth device, if any, or exits with error if none is found.
So the checkbox failure is expected behaviour... what's puzzling is why is the bluetoothd and bluetooth applet running? On other systems with no bluetooth, this was not an issue. This is the first system I've tested that did NOT have bluetooth but exhibited this behaviour.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: bluez 4.96-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 16 12:59:15 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
InterestingModules: bnep rfcomm btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro 3550
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/04/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X19
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: X19
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Vostro 3550
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
DOWN
RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
TX bytes:66 acl:0 sco:0 commands:21 errors:1
Changed in bluez (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in bluez (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I can not confirm that there is no Bluetooth. My Vostro 3550 had a successful connection to my phone under windows.
However after the bios upgrade i deleted win and have not been able to connect again with ubuntu 11.10.
Indicator is running and one can switch it, but under settings bluetooth is hard off:
"$sudo hciconfig hci0 up" is rfkill blocked everytime or timed out (110) after you do "$sudo rfkill unblock all"
So i believe this is actually you having bluetooth and are affected by this bug https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ linux/+ bug/714862