I got the same problem today. Worked fine before problem started 2 days ago (no more profile a2dp available through pulseAudio) I reinstall bluez packages as pulseAudio-mudule-bluetooth, remove cinnamon-bluetooth and give a try with blueman. I ran into the error "setup stream sound error" untill a manually launch pulseaudio-module-bluetooth. So I remove the blueman and reiinstall cinnamon bluetooth (which depend on gnoma-bluetooth) Since it connect as soon as I fireup my bluetooth headset senheizer HD 4.40BT here is the setup: System: Host: Malez Kernel: 3.19.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Cinnamon 2.8.8 (Gtk 3.10.8~8+qiana) Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M4A79T Deluxe v: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends v: 3503 date: 05/06/2011 ~ $ lsusb Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04e8:1f05 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd S2 Portable [JMicron] (500GB) Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 003: ID 050d:0081 Belkin Components F8T001v2 Bluetooth Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 06f8:3004 Guillemot Corp. Hercules Classic Silver Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub ~ $ dpkg -l | grep blue ii bluetooth 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 all Bluetooth support ii bluez 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 amd64 Bluetooth tools and daemons ii bluez-alsa:amd64 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 amd64 Bluetooth ALSA support ii bluez-alsa:i386 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 i386 Bluetooth ALSA support ii bluez-audio 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 all Transitional package ii bluez-btsco 1:0.50-0ubuntu4 amd64 Bluez Bluetooth SCO tool ii bluez-cups 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 amd64 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS ii bluez-dbg 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 amd64 Bluetooth tools and daemons (with debugging symbols) ii bluez-gstreamer 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 amd64 Bluetooth GStreamer support ii bluez-hcidump 2.5-1 amd64 Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets ii bluez-tools 0.1.38+git662e-3 amd64 Set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices for linux ii bluez-utils 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 all Transitional package ii cinnamon-bluetooth 3.8.11+rosa amd64 Gnome Bluetooth support for the Cinnamon desktop ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 3.8.2.1-0ubuntu4.2 amd64 Introspection data for GnomeBluetooth ii gnome-bluetooth 3.8.2.1-0ubuntu4.2 amd64 GNOME Bluetooth tools ii indicator-bluetooth 0.0.6+14.04.20140207-0ubuntu2 amd64 System bluetooth indicator. ii libbluetooth-dev 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 amd64 Development files for using the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth library ii libbluetooth3:amd64 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 amd64 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack ii libbluetooth3-dbg 4.101-0ubuntu13.3 amd64 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack with debugging symbols ii libgnome-bluetooth11 3.8.2.1-0ubuntu4.2 amd64 GNOME Bluetooth tools - support library ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1 amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server