Comment 53 for bug 191704

Ok to attempt to recreate i disconnected my keyboard, and deleted the trust. I can now not reconnect using the applet as it crashed with an out of memory error in a call to dbus (checking for a valid path for a setting iirc). This error is reported against gnome-bluetooth as a bug here (Bug #179399).

I dont know if there are otherwise any errors in the bluetooth stack so as a temporary workaround i installed the recompiled current package from Elliot and connected manually using "sudo hidd --search" with my device in pairing mode. It is now functional but obviously not the way it should be setup.

This leads me to the following shaky conclusion:

Except for the desired but optional inclusion of the old binaries (was pand or similar functionality available in the normal binary of bluez-utils?) the bluetooth stack seems functional and this is evidenced by our ability to connect via the hidd binary. once bug in the bluetooth-properties applet is fixed hopefully we will be able to register and maintain persistent bt connections using the new and suggested dbus method via the applet.