bluetooth application doesn't pair the bluetooth phone

[Vitalii Vovk]

an external usb bluetooth adapter fails to connect to other devices under the bluetooth application. It reconglizes the devices but fail to pair. Different types of PIN verification had been used.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: bluetooth (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 3 20:19:23 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
InterestingModules: btusb bnep rfcomm bluetooth
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Mini CQ10-600
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=68f85241-9546-40bb-8be6-d00c4803247f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (20 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/30/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.14
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1584
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 85.2B
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Chassis Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.14:bd11/30/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnCompaqMiniCQ10-600:pvr059010A000002400000300000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1584:rvr85.2B:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: Compaq Mini CQ10-600
dmi.product.version: 059010A000002400000300000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 00:15:83:0B:13:C0 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
  UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
  RX bytes:1017 acl:0 sco:0 events:28 errors:0
  TX bytes:622 acl:0 sco:0 commands:27 errors:0

[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.