bluetooth mouse disabled during upgrades

[Aaron Bentley]

When I use update-manager, very frequently my bluetooth mouse is disabled partway through the process, and reactivated near the end of the process. This is a minor annoyance for me since I also have a touchpad, but could be significant for a user with no other pointing device.

I suspect this is some sort of deferred processing during bluetooth upgrades, but since the lack of bluetooth can be problematic, I suggest that deferred processing is not appropriate in this case.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 14 10:08:45 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges:
 com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
 com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1331733921
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 629
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 600
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-02 (11 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It certainly looks like the bluetooth service is stopped for a while:

14:12:27 - flash:[/tmp] zgrep -n bluetooth bug-955077/DpkgTerminalLog.txt.gz
558:Preparing to replace libbluetooth3 4.98-2ubuntu1 (using .../libbluetooth3_4.98-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
559:Unpacking replacement libbluetooth3 ...
815:bluetooth stop/waiting
816:Moving obsolete conffile /etc/default/bluetooth out of the way...
1173:Installing new version of config file /etc/init/bluetooth.conf ...
1174:bluetooth start/running, process 424
1175:Removing obsolete conffile /etc/default/bluetooth ...
1621:Setting up libbluetooth3 (4.98-2ubuntu4) ...
2276:Preparing to replace pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:1.1-0ubuntu11 (using .../pulseaudio-module-bluetooth_1%3a1.1-0ubuntu12_amd64.deb) ...
2277:Unpacking replacement pulseaudio-module-bluetooth ...
2358:Setting up pulseaudio-module-bluetooth (1:1.1-0ubuntu12) ...
3090:bluetooth stop/waiting
3138:Preparing to replace libbluetooth3 4.98-2ubuntu4 (using .../libbluetooth3_4.98-2ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
3139:Unpacking replacement libbluetooth3 ...
3348:bluetooth start/running, process 10128
3528:Setting up libbluetooth3 (4.98-2ubuntu5) ...
3779:bluetooth stop/waiting
3797:Preparing to replace libbluetooth3 4.98-2ubuntu5 (using .../libbluetooth3_4.98-2ubuntu6_amd64.deb) ...
3798:Unpacking replacement libbluetooth3 ...
3880:bluetooth start/running, process 9833
3983:Setting up libbluetooth3 (4.98-2ubuntu6) ...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I ran into this myself today and it was quite annoying.