Bluez5, bluetooth not recognized by gnome-bluetooth

Leduck · 2013-06-09 03:37:28

I did a fresh install and installed the new bluez package (version 5). The service starts normally, but the gnome-bluetooth does not recognize bluetooth. You need some more package now? For example, bluez-libs and bluez-utils that are the same version. In version 4 I have never installed these packages.

Thanks,

Stebalien · 2013-06-09 04:27:25

Does bluez4 work? I'm pretty sure the current release of gnome-bluetooth hasn't been ported to bluez5 yet (https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-bluetooth/log/).

Leduck · 2013-06-09 04:36:41

Yes, with version 4 bluez gnome worked perfectly. I will remove the bluez and return to bluez4. This update should not be active without being fully functional.

tomegun · 2013-06-09 11:18:31

This appears to be a packaging bug in gnome-bluetooth it should be depending on 'bluez4', I'll sort it out.

grinko · 2013-06-09 17:27:22

Just wanted to hop in and say that the latest updates, including gnome-bluetooth now depending on bluez4, broke the Gnome3 BT support, at least on my Laptop with a Dell Bluetooth chipset. It worked fine a few days ago.

bluetoothd starts fine, but Gnome doesn't recognize it.

Last edited by grinko (2013-06-09 17:29:47)

Angelsoul · 2013-06-09 21:39:09

grinko wrote:

Just wanted to hop in and say that the latest updates, including gnome-bluetooth now depending on bluez4, broke the Gnome3 BT support, at least on my Laptop with a Dell Bluetooth chipset. It worked fine a few days ago.
bluetoothd starts fine, but Gnome doesn't recognize it.

I have the same problem with my dell studio 1557.
Now my configuration is:
gnome-bluetooth 3.8.1-2
bluez4
obexd-client
and other packages about obex...

with this cofiguration, gnome-bluetooth does not recognize bluetooth device, but the bluetooth service in systemd starts and work fine.
this is systemctl status bluetooth:

bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since dom 2013-06-09 23:18:40 CEST; 19min ago
 Main PID: 341 (bluetoothd)
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/bluetooth.service
           └─341 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd -n

giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: Bluetooth daemon 4.101
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: Starting SDP server
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: bluetoothd[341]: Starting SDP server
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/proximity.conf failed: No such file or directory
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: Not enough free handles to register service
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: Bluetooth Management interface initialized
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: bluetoothd[341]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/proximity.conf failed: No such file or directory
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: bluetoothd[341]: Not enough free handles to register service
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst bluetoothd[341]: bluetoothd[341]: Bluetooth Management interface initialized
giu 09 23:18:40 dellst systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.

I don't know why this happens.

WonderWoofy · 2013-06-09 21:44:21

Have either of you thought to maybe make a bug report?

Angelsoul · 2013-06-10 08:15:33

Now my configuration is:
gnome-bluetooth 3.8.1-2
bluez4
obexd-client
and other packages about obex...

With bluez5 is the same.

Have either of you thought to maybe make a bug report?

This is a similar problem:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35696?

Leduck · 2013-06-10 16:39:46

The bug report already exists, but there is no solution yet. What I do not understand is what changed between v4 bluez that existed a few days ago and bluez4 which is the new package. What I did was enter the repository Konnichi and pick the version before these modifications bluez and gnome-bluetooth and reinstall on my computer.

Angelsoul · 2013-06-12 16:56:19

It seems that the new updates they turn off the bluetooth device during start.
So if you have bluez4 you need to install bluez-utils and restart.
If the bluetooth doesn't turn on, you need:

hciconfig --all

and read the label for your bluetooth device, then do:

hciconfig "label of your device" up

the default label is 'hci0'
so, the code can be this:

hciconfig hci0 up

more info here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35696

Last edited by Angelsoul (2013-06-12 16:58:57)

tapia · 2013-08-12 18:47:15

So, the solution proposed by Angelsoul doesn't work for me. Does anyone have another solution? It has been a while since the last time I could use any bluetooth device in my computer due to this problem.

Last edited by tapia (2013-08-12 18:47:49)

tapia · 2013-09-02 01:28:23

Hi, I still can't use my bluetooth device. This is my output for `journalctl -xu bluetooth.service':

sep 01 21:23:14 tapia-notebook systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
-- Subject: Unit bluetooth.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit bluetooth.service has begun starting up.
sep 01 21:23:14 tapia-notebook systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXE
sep 01 21:23:14 tapia-notebook systemd[1]: Failed to start Bluetooth service.
-- Subject: Unit bluetooth.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/be02cf6855d2428ba40df7e9d022f03d
-- 
-- Unit bluetooth.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
sep 01 21:23:14 tapia-notebook systemd[1]: Unit bluetooth.service entered failed state.

Thanks

Leduck · 2013-10-07 17:57:48

This problem needs to be solved now because bluez4 is no longer supported by gnome 3.10!

ttux · 2013-11-24 17:58:15

Did someone got this working ? I can connect my bluetooth device through command line (speakers zii sound) but then I can't see it in gnome sound settings so I can't select it as a sound device and can't use my speakers.

I have the device defined in /etc/asound.conf and I can see it with aplay -L but if I try to play a sound with asound:
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:252:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_bluetooth.so

Not sure what I should do to see this device in my gnome sound settings again.

Thanks

ttux · 2013-11-24 18:29:37

never mind, it has been fixed, I just did pacman -Syu and it's sorted now.

tapia · 2013-11-24 22:53:13

@ttux: What else did you do? My bluetooth seems to be absolutely dead in Archlinux still.

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#1 2013-06-09 03:37:28

Bluez5, bluetooth not recognized by gnome-bluetooth

#2 2013-06-09 04:27:25

Re: Bluez5, bluetooth not recognized by gnome-bluetooth

#3 2013-06-09 04:36:41

Re: Bluez5, bluetooth not recognized by gnome-bluetooth

#4 2013-06-09 11:18:31

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#6 2013-06-09 21:39:09

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#9 2013-06-10 16:39:46

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#10 2013-06-12 16:56:19

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#12 2013-09-02 01:28:23

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