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chrisco23

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Registered: 2017-12-13

Posts: 156

blueman stopped working, XPS 15, Eero router

A month or so back I got around to getting bluetooth working using blueman-manager with blueman-applet, so I could use my wireless headphones at home.

I keep my system pretty up-to-date using 'yay' pretty frequently.

My phone has informed me a couple times recently that my Eero router has updated itself.

I'm seeing:

$ blueman-applet --syslog
blueman-applet version 2.1.4 starting
Stale PID, overwriting
blueman-applet 17.26.56 WARNING  PluginManager:148 __load_plugin: Not loading PPPSupport because its conflict has higher priority
blueman-tray version 2.1.4 starting
Stale PID, overwriting
blueman-tray version 2.1.4 starting
There is an instance already running
blueman-applet 17.26.56 WARNING  PluginManager:148 __load_plugin: Not loading DhcpClient because its conflict has higher priority
blueman-applet 17.26.56 WARNING  DiscvManager:109 update_menuitems: warning: Adapter is None


$ uname -a
Linux xpschris 5.10.16-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat, 13 Feb 2021 20:50:18 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux


$ pacman -Q blueman
blueman 2.1.4-1

I'm on Eero v6.1.2-20
My hunch is that possibly a Eero update (or a kernel update??) has caused a conflict somewhere/somehow.
When I was successfully running Blueman, I got a Bluetooth symbol on my polybar (running i3), which I could right-click to connect to my headphones.

I haven't been able to see that icon anymore with one exception:  If I hit on the XPS:  Fn+PrtScr (which has the wifi icon), that kills the wifi and the blueman icon shows up, although I still couldn't get it too function.  Having bluetooth without wifi would not be satisfactory anyway.

Any ideas how I can further debug?