my computer's name is not "Bastien's computer"

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

See included screenshot. There is something that looks like a hardcoded string for "Bastien's computer" as a hostname as visible in bluetooth. That is not the case, and may confuse users.

I've found the following string in gnome-bluetooth 3.18.2-1ubuntu2:
gnome-bluetooth-3.18.2/lib/settings.ui: <property name="label">Visible as “Bastien's computer” and available for Bluetooth file transfers. Transferred files are placed in the &lt;a href="http://www.gnome.org"&gt;Downloads&lt;/a&gt; folder.</property>

Furthermore, this string is not translated, as opposed to the rest of the UI for Bluetooth settings.

[Chris (teslas-moustache-t)]

Just noticed the same issue today. It was pretty odd. "Fixed" by turning Bluetooth off and on again.

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

Here is an upstream bug report. This seems to be a symptom of another problem: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755967

There are apparently fixes for this, and the related failure of the bluetooth settings to work at all, in upstream's gnome-control-center
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741675#c13

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

The fixes are in gnome-settings-daemon 3.18.3 (bug #1582443) and gnome-control-center 3.18 branch after 3.18.2,
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/log/?h=gnome-3-18

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Maybe we can ask upstream to release gnome-control-center 3.18.3?

[Redsandro (redsandro)]

I just saw my computer was "Bastien's computer" and I freaked out a bit.

I thought I was hacked.

Glad it's just a bug, albeit a funky one.

[Stu (stu-axon)]

Confirming on 16.04

[Ivan Garavito (ivangaravito)]

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 Gnome, and my Bluetooth speaker connected, but wasn't recognized as output device, so I've made the next steps that worked for me:

1. Disable for a while the bluetooth via gnome-control-center
2. Get the output of `rfkill list`, and look for the device number for hci
```bash
ૐ » ~ λ rfkill list
7: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
```
3. Unblock the hci device via `rfkill unblock <dev>`, `I did rfkill unblock 7`
4. Go to gnome-control-center and enable the bluetooth
5. It works again!!!!

Hope this helps you guys.

[Johannah Sprinz (neothethird)]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/883788/who-is-bastien