can't turn on bluetooth

[Matt Joiner]

In the menu's, bluetooth won't turn on. Occasionally if it appears to be on in the applet, it doesn't appear to be on in the settings dialog.

This has been broken since at least 11.04, but worked for 10.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic-pae 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 14 14:45:55 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/bluetooth-applet
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120312)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Cameron Martin (cameronmartin123)]

For me, this problem was caused by bluetoothd not being executable, so was not running.

I fixed this by running:

    $ sudo chmod +x /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
    $ sudo start bluetoothd