"browse files" on device does nothing

[Teo]

I click on the Bluetooth icon on the top-right corner of the screen next to the battery icon
My mobile phone is listed in the drop down. I select it and I click on "Browse files"

Expected: a Nautilus window should appear showing the browsable contents of the device. Maybe the device should prompt me whether to allow browsing before

Observed: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happens. The computer doesn't even try to connect to the phone. Nothing happens on the phone, nothing happens on the computer; no error message is shown anywhere, it's just as if I had done nothing.

I've done an hcidump while trying this, and it's empty.

This HAD WORKED BEFORE on the same machine and with the same device.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: bluetooth (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-33.48-generic 3.8.13.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 22 17:53:08 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (41 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
InterestingModules: bnep rfcomm btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Acer Aspire V3-571G
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-33-generic root=UUID=5830b30e-69e8-4bb4-8a2b-bc2b43c7414a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/15/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V2.07
dmi.board.asset.tag: Type2 - Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: VA50_HC_CR
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Type2 - Board Version
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: V2.07
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV2.07:bd10/15/2012:svnAcer:pnAspireV3-571G:pvrV2.07:rvnAcer:rnVA50_HC_CR:rvrType2-BoardVersion:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV2.07:
dmi.product.name: Aspire V3-571G
dmi.product.version: V2.07
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: A4:17:31:0D:4A:70 ACL MTU: 1022:8 SCO MTU: 183:5
  UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
  RX bytes:549 acl:0 sco:0 events:31 errors:0
  TX bytes:1168 acl:0 sco:0 commands:31 errors:0

[N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux)]

If the bluetooth is working and recognizes your phone, then probably this bug should be reported against nautilus (browsing files via bluetooth.)

[Teo (teo1978)]

Actually I think the issue is in the widget or applet or whatever it's called that appears in the notification area.

[Teo (teo1978)]

Please reconsider the reassignment to Nautilus.

I don't think the bluetooth widget in the notification area has nothing to do with Nautilus. And when I click on the device listed there, the computer does NOT EVEN TRY TO CONNECT to the phone; I guess it would open Nautilus after establishing a connection to the device, so if it doesn't even try I don't think Nautilus has anything to do here.

[Teo (teo1978)]

If I open BlueTooth Settings, then select the device from the list on the left, then click on the "Browse Files" button, then IT WORKS.

It's definitely the notification-area widget that it's broken.

I'm going to change this to "confirmed" because if we wait for someone else to test it (let alone confirm it) we're going to wait forever.

There's enough information in this report to start fixing it.

[Teo (teo1978)]

(the hcidump itself confirms it)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The backend used as been removed from gvfs, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685038