Bluetooth headset/speakers listed but not selectable in Sound settings
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
blueman (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
bluez (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Daniel van Vugt |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Bluetooth headset/speakers are listed but not selectable in Sound settings (the correct device's options don't appear in the right pane). Hence no Bluetooth audio is unusable.
[Test Case]
1. Pair a Bluetooth audio device with Ubuntu.
2. Go to Sound settings and try to select the device.
Expected: The Bluetooth audio device is selectable (its options appear in the right pane when clicked and the selection stays on that device).
[Regression Potential]
Low. The SRU focuses on Bluetooth logic in pulseaudio, so that is the main area affected. A combination of related A2DP bugs in pulseaudio in xenial means it is difficult to get working at all without this patch. So highly unlikely Bluetooth audio support could get worse. Since pulseaudio itself is being modified there is always a regression potential in support for other audio devices, but several audio devices have been tested and all continue to work well with the patch.
[Other notes]
Related to bug 1438510 and bug 1582213. Possibly others too. The debdiff which fixes this is attached to bug 1582213.
Please note that Bluetooth and Bluetooth audio support in xenial is still not perfect. This SRU only aims to address a few of the most troublesome issues. Please consider the fact that this is an incremental improvement and some people are still likely to experience some bugs related to pulseaudio and Bluetooth, even after this SRU.
The patch was authored by Luke Yelavich with help from Konrad Zapałowicz. And it has received further testing over the past two months by Konrad, Jim Hodapp and Daniel van Vugt. The debdiff proposed here only changes the changelog wording from Luke's original PPA.
[Original Description]
Hi,
I found a bug in Ubuntu 14.04 !
I tried to pair a bluetooth stereo headset (A2DP compatible). The pairing process goes well, but after that I can't select it on the audio preferences.
When I select it, it only shows the last selected item options and don't do anything. (he should switch to the headset output).
I must mention that it worked very well on Ubuntu 12.04.
This bug can be in the bluetooth stack or in unity-control-
no longer affects: | unity-control-center |
Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
affects: | blueman (Ubuntu) → blueman |
Changed in blueman (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | blueman |
Changed in blueman (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
Changed in blueman (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
Changed in blueman (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
affects: | pulseaudio (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
assignee: | David Henningsson (diwic) → nobody |
tags: | added: ua |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | ubuntu → bluez (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: xenial |
Changed in gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in blueman (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
tags: | added: papercuts2017 |
tags: | added: a2dp |
summary: |
- [Bluetooth + 14.04] Bluetooth headsets are not working after last couple - of updates + Bluetooth headset/speakers listed but not selectable in Sound settings |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
assignee: | nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in bluez (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
no longer affects: | bluez (Ubuntu Xenial) |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) → nobody |
description: | updated |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
tags: |
added: verification-done-xenial removed: verification-done |
I am having the same problem with the Bose Soundlink III worked (mostly fine) until Friday evening updates (02-28-2014), .
In fact, if I enable bluetooth from the setting dialog it immediately stops after enabling. If I hardware disable bluetooth, then turn it back on I can then try and pair the device, but nothing is ever found. I did see some bluetooth and pulse audio updates come down the pike, but no idea what is causing this problem
If there is any information I could provide that would be helpful please let me know.
Lenovo T61P
Ubuntu 14.04 - 3.13.0-10-generic