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ryang

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Registered: 2020-12-31

Posts: 3

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

Using bluez-git also solved this problem for me with my Bose QC35ii's. Thanks

knovoselic

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Registered: 2018-12-13

Posts: 16

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

bluez 5.60 has been released and should contain the fix, so if anyone wants to, they can go back to using bluez instead of bluez-git

Bzzz_56

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Registered: 2021-05-14

Posts: 37

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

bluez 5.60 has been released and should contain the fix, so if anyone wants to, they can go back to using bluez instead of bluez-git

this upgrade indeed fixed the A2DP problem, but i'm finding that my MX Vertical needs a repairing after each reboot (and this issue persists if i switch to the bluez-git package), guess i'm staying at bluez 5.58

ugjka

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2014-04-01

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Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

bluez 5.60 has been released and should contain the fix, so if anyone wants to, they can go back to using bluez instead of bluez-git

this upgrade indeed fixed the A2DP problem, but i'm finding that my MX Vertical needs a repairing after each reboot (and this issue persists if i switch to the bluez-git package), guess i'm staying at bluez 5.58

Did you nuke /var/lib/bluetooth ?

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Bzzz_56

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Registered: 2021-05-14

Posts: 37

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

bluez 5.60 has been released and should contain the fix, so if anyone wants to, they can go back to using bluez instead of bluez-git

this upgrade indeed fixed the A2DP problem, but i'm finding that my MX Vertical needs a repairing after each reboot (and this issue persists if i switch to the bluez-git package), guess i'm staying at bluez 5.58

Did you nuke /var/lib/bluetooth ?

Yep, and i've seen early posts that have the very same issue.

mokkurkalve

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From: Bergen, Norway

Registered: 2009-08-29

Posts: 60

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

Yep, and i've seen early posts that have the very same issue.

Maybe you should file a bug report on 5.60?

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Bzzz_56

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Registered: 2021-05-14

Posts: 37

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

Yep, and i've seen early posts that have the very same issue.

Maybe you should file a bug report on 5.60?

It seems that i've found the workaround to my problem, as suggested in the archwiki page Problems with all BLE devices on kernel 5.9+, and it works in my case!

shaan7

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Registered: 2014-02-04

Posts: 2

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

bluez 5.60 has been released and should contain the fix, so if anyone wants to, they can go back to using bluez instead of bluez-git

I can confirm this. Although I had already downgraded to 5.58 and deleted `/var/lib/bluetooth/`, upgrading to 5.60 and restarting bluetooth service still hasn't broken anything. I'm able to enjoy A2DP and even aptX now! wohoo!

Thanks for figuring out the workaround though knovoselic

mknawabi

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Registered: 2015-07-31

Posts: 1

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

Updated to the new bluez-5.60-1 and removed the pulseaudio-modules-bt-git and replaced with pulseaudio-bluetooth (to get back to a more standard setup), removed the contents of /var/lib/bluetooth/ and then ran a systemctl restart bluetooth -- re-paired my WH-1000XM4 and now they finally work with a2dp.

marksievers

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Registered: 2017-08-22

Posts: 14

Re: A2DP sink profile is unavailable

Confirm the steps above worked for me after running bluez-git while this was being resolved.

I know the community revels in reading the manual etc but I hadn't done this kind of conflicting upgrade yet, so learned a couple of new pacman steps which I'll add here:

Attempting to remove bluez-git:

> $ sudo pacman -Rs bluez-git
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing bluez-git breaks dependency 'bluez-libs' required by networkmanager
:: removing bluez-git breaks dependency 'bluez' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth
:: removing bluez-git breaks dependency 'bluez-libs' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth

Ah, it provides those:

> $ pacman -Qi bluez
Name            : bluez-git
Version         : 1:5.59.r10.g864d03727-1
Provides        : libbluetooth.so=3-64  bluez=5.59-1  bluez-utils=5.59-1  bluez-libs=5.59-1  bluez-cups=5.59-1  bluez-hid2hci=5.59-1  bluez-plugins=5.59-1
Required By     : networkmanager  pulseaudio-bluetooth
Conflicts With  : bluez  bluez-utils  bluez-libs  bluez-cups  bluez-hid2hci  bluez-plugins  bluez-hcidump  obexd-client  obexd-server
...

Read the man page on this one:

> $ pacman -Rdd bluez-git

And finally reinstate the dependencies:

> $ pacman -Rdd bluez-git
> $ pacman -S bluez bluez-libs

Probably time to mark the thread as solved?

Last edited by marksievers (2021-07-15 22:38:34)