0a12:0001 Bluetooth Dongle (Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd) doesn't work after upgrading to Saucy

[Aditya]

After upgrading to Saucy, the bluetooth-indicator was no longer present in the taskbar. If I go to System Settings >> Bluetooth; it shows as "Bluetooth is disabled" and toggling the On|Off Switch doesn't enable it: http://i.stack.imgur.com/vwfEo.png

I have installed the Blueman Device Manager to solve this issue and its bluetooth indicator is shown on the taskbar, but it doesn't function. However, toggling the On|Off switch in System Settings >> Bluetooth, grays out the icon of Blueman indicator in the taskbar.

To debug the issue, I am following the instructions mentioned at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection. I have downloaded and installed the kernals from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/linux:
- 3.9.0-7.15 works for me
- 3.10.0-0.6 doesn't work

For further commit bisecting, I have downloaded the git repository of `ubuntu-saucy` by running: git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-saucy.git

To see how many commits are there in between, I run the following command:
git log --oneline Ubuntu-3.9.0-7.15..Ubuntu-3.10.0-0.6 | wc
14802 117434 922801

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: linux-image-3.11.0-12-generic 3.11.0-12.19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: aditya 1767 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: aditya 1767 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: aditya 1767 F...m pulseaudio
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 23.616595] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
 [ 23.617367] alx 0000:02:00.0 eth0: NIC Up: 100 Mbps Full
 [ 23.617591] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Date: Sun Oct 27 15:17:38 2013
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=98bed5fe-b467-4bb4-9173-177ee22f8c76
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-06 (112 days ago)
InstallationMedia: This
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-78LMT-S2PT
MarkForUpload: True
ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-generic root=UUID=1274a22c-31b4-4c65-8a0f-8eede0288fea ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.11.0-12-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.11.0-12-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.116
RfKill:
 0: hci0: Bluetooth
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (8 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/05/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FC
dmi.board.name: GA-78LMT-S2PT
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFC:bd11/05/2012:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-78LMT-S2PT:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-78LMT-S2PT:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-78LMT-S2PT
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[Aditya (code-aditya)]

Christopher,

The linked article mentions the command to run as:

$ git bisect start <BAD> <GOOD>

In my case, Bad is `Ubuntu-3.10.0-0.6`; and Good is `Ubuntu-3.9.0-7.15`

So, I think I am supposed to run:

$ git bisect start Ubuntu-3.10.0-0.6 Ubuntu-3.9.0-7.15

Please confirm the same. Moreover, I think I would have to build the kernals myself which would be time-consuming on my machine. Is it somehow possible to use Launchpad PPA's service to download the built kernals and install them?

This is the first time I am attempting something like this, so please forgive my ignorance about it.

Cheers :-)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Aditya, you are correct, it's BAD GOOD, not GOOD BAD.

>"Moreover, I think I would have to build the kernals myself which would be time-consuming on my machine. Is it somehow possible to use Launchpad PPA's service to download the built kernals and install them?"

Not that I am aware.

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

Christopher, while trying to bisect my debian and debian.master folders disappeared because I am commit bisecting Ubuntu kernel versions across non-linear tags (I don't know what that means :-)) as per this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Commit_bisecting_Ubuntu_kernel_versions_across_non-linear_tags

So, I would have to bisect the upstream kernal versions.. I am first of all going to do KernalBisection by downloading and installing the mainline kernals from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Thereafter, I would need to do CommitBisection. I am reading up on it, but let me know would I have to download the whole MEGABYTES of another Git repository? If so, which one - I haven't found yet...

Thanks for your support :-)

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

I have downloaded and installed v3.9.11-saucy, v3.10-rc1-saucy and v3.10-rc2-saucy from the mainline build repository: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Out of this:
- v3.9.11-saucy works well
- v3.10-rc1-saucy did seem to install but doesn't boot for me
- v3.10-rc2-saucy doesn't work

So, the problem is between v3.9.11-saucy and v3.10-rc2-saucy in the mainline builds.

v3.9.11-saucy is GOOD
v3.10-rc2-saucy is BAD

(BTW, both these mainline builds broke my Network connection. I hope that doesn't affect us. My network connection was and is fine in all the other kernals.)

Please guide me through the next step.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Aditya, following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Commit_bisecting_upstream_kernel_versions the next step is to download the entire upstream git repository (which may take a while and take multiple attempts) via:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

and bisect between the two mainline kernel points:
git bisect start v3.10-rc2 v3.9.11

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

Hi Christopher,

I made an attempt to compile the mainline kernel. It took more than 90 minutes on my machine to compile the packages for i386. However, there are a few anomalies. It created 4 .deb packages for me:

- linux-firmware-image_3.9.0-adi01-1_i386.deb (1.1 MB)
- linux-headers-3.9.0-adi01_3.9.0-adi01-1_i386.deb (8.4 MB)
- linux-image-3.9.0-adi01_3.9.0-adi01-1_i386.deb (711.9 MB)
- linux-libc-dev_3.9.0-adi01-1_i386.deb (941.8 kB)

I don't know why it compiled v3.9.0 (maybe I made some mistake somewhere). Moreover, the size of linux-image is too huge in my opinion. Should I attempt to install these .deb packages? Or, there is something wrong with them because of its huge size. (Generally the size of update for ubuntu-kernal happens to be ~60 MB).

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Aditya, if you followed the instructions verbatim then give it a go and see if it allows you to boot to it.

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

Chistopher, I am not feeling comfortable installing that right now. I have my exams during the next three weeks and I can't risk an unstable system till that time. CommitBisection would also requrie me to build and install the kernel atleast 13 times. So, I would get back to this bug after 21st November and restart the Commit Bisection process at that time.

Hope you would help me then and thanks for your patience.

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

@Christopher, I once again started the bisecting process, for me the size of kernnels built are abnormal, however I have installed them.

I had built and installed the 1st bisection. It turned out to be good and bluetooth was working on it. Then, I built the 2nd bisection. I have installed the files generated from 2nd bisection, but I can't boot to it. So, I am stuck in this bisection process and can't proceed further.

Following is the output of `git bisect log`:

$ git bisect log
# bad: [c7788792a5e7b0d5d7f96d0766b4cb6112d47d75] Linux 3.10-rc2
# good: [896f5009ed1fbaec43f360c4ebf022639cd61d5f] Linux 3.9.11
git bisect start 'v3.10-rc2' 'v3.9.11'
# good: [c1be5a5b1b355d40e6cf79cc979eb66dafa24ad1] Linux 3.9
git bisect good c1be5a5b1b355d40e6cf79cc979eb66dafa24ad1

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Aditya, if the 2nd bisection can't boot, just increment one/few commit(s) away.

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

I have not yet given up hope.. I am trying to do the bisection, but everytime I get into the situation of not being able to boot the kernel. For someone who hasn't done anything like this before; building the kernels and bisecting it to get hold of the bad commit is a pretty daunting task indeed. Any it takes upwards to 2.5hours to build the kernel on my system.

So, I am still doing the bisection as and when possible and would report things in due course.

However, is it possible to provide more parameters to `git bisect start` in order to cut down the number of bisections required in this case; as mentioned over here:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html#_cutting_down_bisection_by_giving_more_parameters_to_bisect_start

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

@Christopher

I have found Bug No. 60824 on Linux Bug Tracker: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60824

It looks like the same problem as this one. There is a patch provided by Gustavo Padovan in Comment no. 6: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60824#c6

Can you help me in applying this patch to the kernel... I have read https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/applying-patches.txt but I am not sure if I need to change branches using git...

Right now, my git repo reports as:

$ git remote -v
origin http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/ (fetch)
origin http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/ (push)

The repo is fully updated as of today and right now I am on the master branch... Could you please hand-hold me to apply the patch mentioned above?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Aditya, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Testing_a_newly_released_patch_from_upstream .

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

@Christopher..

YAY... That patch worked.. The kernel compiled well and I can use bluetooth once again.. Please do the needful to merge that patch in the kernel. Let me know if you require any more information in this regard.

[Aditya (code-aditya)]

I have just tested v3.14-rc6-trusty from mainline kernel and the issue seems to have been fixed.

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.14-rc6-trusty/

[ken Code (kencode)]

Hi guys, I'm starting to think this is a hardware issue and not Linux, but here's what I got so far.
New laptop with the K810 bluetooth keyboard. Linuxmint latest with latest update.
I hate to send the K810 back, its frign awesome. Maybe a dongle would work??

Here's my specs:

from: http://blog.chschmid.com/?p=1537#comment-136700

hcitool scan – shows nothing, it just scans forever it seems.
thoughts? please and thanx :)

kc@kC-laptop ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03eb:8a1d Atmel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:b728 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 5986:055e Acer, Inc
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
kc@kC-laptop ~ $ lsmod | grep bluetooth
bluetooth 391136 22 bnep,btusb,rfcomm
kc@kC-laptop ~ $ dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
[ 2.221447] usb 2-6: Product: Bluetooth Radio
[ 3.886309] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.17
[ 3.886328] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 3.886336] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 3.886339] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 3.886343] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 4.096788] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 4.096792] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 4.096800] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 4.106031] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 4.106042] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 4.106047] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
kc@kC-laptop ~ $ lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller [8086:0a04] (rev 0b)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3978]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3978]
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller [8086:0a0c] (rev 0b)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3978]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP USB xHCI HC [8086:9c31] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3978]
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HECI #0 [8086:9c3a] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3978]
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller [8086:9c20] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3978]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:9c10] (rev e4)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:9c14] (rev e4)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:9c16] (rev e4)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:9c18] (rev e4)
Kernel drive...

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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