Computer completely freezes on bluetooth disconnect

[jenna]

I am experiencing an issue where disconnecting a wiimote (bluetooth device) will cause the whole computer to freeze and require a hard restart. There are a couple scenarios that will cause the issue to occur:

1 - use any program that allows connecting a wiimote to the computer. finish using that program and disconnect the wiimote. start vmware workstation. my computer freezes.

2 - start vmware workstation. start wmgui (available in the package manager). connect a wiimote with wmgui. when i go to disconnect the wiimote, the computer will freeze.

I have tried several programs that connect to the wiimote and any of them will lead to the same issue upon disconnect. But the freeze will only happen if vmware is running, or if i start vmware without first restarting the computer. Also, I don't believe this to be a vmware bug. I have found similar issues to this online where vmware is not involved. There are likely other programs that would cause the same issue, but I haven't run across one. I did find a similar issue from back in 2007 that involved a bluetooth phone and nautilus (Bug #103365 https://launchpad.net/bugs/103365) that was closed due to lack of information.

I found an old report from redhat back in 2003 that had a comment "(the crash happens only if user side processes have been launched, like hcid)". I realize that vmware is not open-source and not supported here, so if If there is some program you would like me to try and reproduce the issue with other than vmware workstation, I will be glad to.

Also, I'm not sure how to collect information for this bug. The computer completely locks up. Please let me know if there is a log somewhere that would help diagnose this.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 10 04:33:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-26 (107 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.