[Solved] cannot receive files over bluetooth

ltorvalds024 · 2016-03-03 11:34:25

I am not able to send files from my phone to my computer. My phone says "remote device rejected your request"
I am using latest arch linux and GNOME desktop.

I have "trusted" my phone from command line, using bluetoothctl but it didn't work

Solution: see my answer below

Last edited by ltorvalds024 (2016-03-04 14:03:47)

WorMzy · 2016-03-03 11:51:53

Why is the PC rejecting the connection? What do your logs say?

Mod note: moving to Networking.

ltorvalds024 · 2016-03-03 12:18:34

WorMzy wrote:

Why is the PC rejecting the connection? What do your logs say?

My phone says "remote device rejected your request"
I tried "journalctl -n" but nothing related to bluetooth shows up.

jeremy31 · 2016-03-03 22:22:29

See if you can find program "Personal File Sharing" and from that you should be able to "enable receive files over bluetooth"

It should be part of gnome-file-share

ltorvalds024 · 2016-03-04 09:25:06

jeremy31 wrote:

See if you can find program "Personal File Sharing" and from that you should be able to "enable receive files over bluetooth"
It should be part of gnome-file-share

I am not able to launch this program. I have posted this problem too here (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=209644)

WorMzy · 2016-03-04 09:48:42

ltorvalds024 wrote:

WorMzy wrote:
Why is the PC rejecting the connection? What do your logs say?
My phone says "remote device rejected your request"
I tried "journalctl -n" but nothing related to bluetooth shows up.

Then presumably the bluetooth daemon isn't running. What does

systemctl status bluetooth.service

tell you?

ltorvalds024 · 2016-03-04 11:38:39

WorMzy wrote:

Then presumably the bluetooth daemon isn't running. What does
systemctl status bluetooth.service
tell you?

The bluetooth daemon is working fine because I am able to use my bluetooth headset to listen to music. What I think is my computer is rejecting the request to receive so there is nothing wrong with bluetooth.
As suggested by jeremy31 I have to "enable receive files over bluetooth" from Personal File Sharing program, but I am not able to launch this program. Issue relating this application posted here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=209644

Last edited by ltorvalds024 (2016-03-04 11:39:55)

jeremy31 · 2016-03-04 12:05:14

I wonder if it may have installed some files

cat /usr/share/GConf/gsettings/gnome-user-share.convert

ltorvalds024 · 2016-03-04 13:51:53

jeremy31 wrote:

I wonder if it may have installed some files
cat /usr/share/GConf/gsettings/gnome-user-share.convert

Its output is

[org.gnome.desktop.file-sharing]

require-password = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/require_password

now what do I do?

ltorvalds024 · 2016-03-04 14:02:37

I have solved my problem with a work around. Thanks to jeremy31 for pointing me to the file /usr/share/GConf/gsettings/gnome-user-share.convert
I copied this file from Ubuntu to my Arch Linux setup, and now I am able to receive files over bluetooth.

$ cat /usr/share/GConf/gsettings/gnome-user-share.convert
[org.gnome.desktop.file-sharing]

enabled = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/enabled
require-password = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/require_password
bluetooth-enabled = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/bluetooth_enabled
bluetooth-allow-write = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/bluetooth_allow_write
bluetooth-require-pairing = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/bluetooth_require_pairing
bluetooth-obexpush-enabled = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/bluetooth_obexpush_enabled
bluetooth-accept-files = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/bluetooth_accept_files
bluetooth-notify = /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/bluetooth_notify

_actually this file should be generated by Personal File Sharing application which I am not able to launch_

jeremy31 · 2016-03-04 22:09:50

Nice work, I would have posted my file if you hadn't found that

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