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gnome-bluetooth package

[Karmic Beta] Bluetooth is disabled. "Turn on Bluetooth" has no effect.

Bug #441800 reported by Brad Johnson
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Note: Clean beta install, fully updated.

gnome-bluetooth:
  Installed: 2.28.0-0ubuntu2

The bluetooth preferences panel recognises when the bluetooth adapter is turned on/off via Fn+F5 (IBM Laptop). When the adapter is off it correctly reports "no bluetooth adapters present". When the adapter is on it reports "bluetooth is disabled" and provides a button to "turn on bluetooth". Clicking this button has no affect.

* The "show bluetooth icon" option is enabled.
* No bluetooth icon in the notification area.
* Bluetooth is unusable in this state.

Bluetooth on this hardware worked perfectly in 9.04.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 6fc41861fbf456cec50c3864d39d6622
CheckboxSystem: b1cca5f799a911bbb44e7180c2fd235d
Date: Sat Oct 3 17:27:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

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Brad Johnson (brad-bkjohnson) wrote :
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Brad Johnson (brad-bkjohnson) wrote : apport-collect data

Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 6fc41861fbf456cec50c3864d39d6622
CheckboxSystem: b1cca5f799a911bbb44e7180c2fd235d
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

tags: added: apport-collected
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Peter Meiser (meiser79) wrote :

Could be the same as bug 436694. Could you try with the mentioned udev rule?

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Brad Johnson (brad-bkjohnson) wrote :

Confirmed. Added the rule to the end of the existing bluetooth rules. Bluetooth now works.

There was mention of some potential security issues with doing this. Can this be confirmed?

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Brad Johnson (brad-bkjohnson) wrote :

The solution was the same but the indications were completely different. By Launchpad standards, does this constitute a duplicate or not?

Alexander Sack (asac)
Changed in gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-bluetooth - 2.28.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-bluetooth (2.28.1-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * new upstream release 2.28.1 - noteworthy changes:
    - bgo:595845 - The applet shows wrong connection information (LP: #440235)
    - bgo:595593 - Make sure pairing agents only bind to default adapter
    - bgo:593565 - Use "cell phone" instead of "mobile phone"
    - bgo:593170 - Minor string fixes
    - Move the pin handling code into a new library, libwizard
    - Fix invalid memory access in agent.c
    - Don't overwrite UUIDs when discovering known device (LP: #413053)

  * ship 61-gnome-bluetooth-rfkill.rules, which enables access to
    /dev/rfkill for users (LP: #436694, #441800); also see rh:514798
  * update libgnome-bluetooth7.symbols; add two new symbols

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:20:10 +0200

Changed in gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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lively (doratheexplorer) wrote :

I did a clean 9.10 install. I have gnome-bluetooth 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 and my system is exhibiting the same behaviour.
When I mouse over the icon (which is greyed out) it shows bluetooth disabled. When I right click the icon, I only have the choice to turn bluetooth off. When I open preferences I have the option to start bluetooth.

Nothing I try turns it on

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