bluetooth: passkey-agent ends with /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

[Robert J. Schulz]

Binary package hint: kdebluetooth

Note: this Bug is perhaps related to Bug #89291 BUT NOT THE SAME

After boot the passkey is running (sorry, i don't know wheth it actually works :( )

robert@sandra-laptop:~$ ps auxw|grep blu
robert 6731 0.0 0.0 1840 624 ? S 23:29 0:00 /usr/bin/passkey-agent --default /usr/lib/kdebluetooth/kbluepin
robert 6734 0.1 1.4 31372 13100 ? S 23:29 0:00 kbluetoothd --dontforceshow
robert 7087 0.0 0.0 2896 772 pts/1 R+ 23:31 0:00 grep blu

after /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
its missing
root@sandra-laptop:/home/robert# ps auxw|grep blu
robert 6734 0.0 1.5 31452 14460 ? S Mar04 0:00 kbluetoothd --dontforceshow
root 9835 0.0 0.0 2900 764 pts/1 R+ 00:39 0:00 grep blu

i guess, it stops because sdpd is shutdown. IMHO it should stay active even if sdpd or so shuts down. Some Problem in DBUS?

workaround:
restart the pinhelper manually:

/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart ; /usr/bin/passkey-agent --default /usr/lib/kdebluetooth/kbluepin &

gives in syslog:

Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hcid[7285]: Bluetooth HCI daemon
Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hcid[7285]: HCI dev 0 registered
Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hcid[7285]: HCI dev 0 already up
Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hcid[7285]: Device hci0 has been added
Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hcid[7285]: Starting security manager 0
Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hidd[7289]: Bluetooth HID daemon
Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hcid[7285]: Device hci0 has been activated
Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hcid[7285]: Starting SDP server
Mar 4 23:36:56 sandra-laptop hcid[7285]: Default passkey agent (:1.18, /org/bluez/passkey_agent_7298) registered

Also somehow a kde message pops up each time if i do a restart which is annoying.

[RobertBrunhuber (ubuntu-rbrunhuber)]

I think that the passkey-agent is not necessary to keep running even when the bluetooth service is restarted. But I'd like to vote for the debian way to start the passkey-agent.

The ubuntu way:
The passkey agent is started via autostart in this file "/usr/share/autostart/ kbluepin.autostart.desktop"
The disadvantage is:
If bluetooth is stopped or restarted passkey agent gets disconnected and can not be restarted if the user does not know the above mentioned command.

The debian way:
/usr/bin/kbluetoothd is renamed to /usr/bin/kbluetoothd.real
/usr/bin/kbluetoothd is a shell script which first starts passkey-agent and then /usr/bin/kbluetoothd.real.

The advantage for the user: If the passkey-agent gets killed for whatever reason, just restart kbluetoothd and you are set. Most people are restarting a non-cooperative program as a reflex and it will work again.

On the other hand since the passkey-agent line is just a "hack" needed for kbluepin/kbluetoothd with the debian script the workaround is contained only in this file.