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Am I alone in having problems getting Bluetooth to operate reliably in recent months? It seems to me that since Linux 3 and Groan 3 (probably Nautilus 3) that bluetooth has become as problematic as it was a few years ago.
I can get it to work sometimes. But frequently, most times really, there is something wrong. The most usual thing is that the Blueman-applet or Groan's Bluetooth-applet cannot find a browser for the device, and just SILENTLY ignores me (who is it, by the way, who writes desktop software like applets without any error messages? I want to strangle them. Just 'Error, see /var/log/xyz.log for details', would be enough). Of course I can dig into logs to find messages like:
Loading configuration plugins
Using gconf config backend
Could not parse arguments: Unknown option --browser
I know what it means, the system has returned an opex object that blueman doesn't know how to browse. It needs to open a file manager with it. But somehow the configuration of that has disappeared again. In desperation I tried Linux Mint 12 and Ubuntu 11.10 (same thing really) and they are just as bad.
Yet earlier today, I had no problems getting the browser open, and starting to copy files. The problem there was that the transfers hang after a while and then we have problem 1 again, so I can't diagnose that either!
It's enough to make you want a Redmond Rhubarb Computer again.
Does anyone have a simple diagnostic approach for bluetooth? I don't know where to start.
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