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lmello

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 300

[SOLVED] bluetooth file transfer - obex problem

I'm having problems again (this used to work perfectly) with bluetooth file transfers. Pairing and all is fine, but every file transfer fail - from my computer to the phone and vice-versa. Using gnome's "bluetooth-sendto" I get this from the command line:

$ bluetooth-sendto 
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
Acquiring proxy failed: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.bluez.obex: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.obex.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

The dbus-org-bluez.obex.service error message appears as soon as I select a file to send to the paired device.

I have installed:

dbus 1.10.0-3
gnome-bluetooth 3.16.1-1
bluez 5.34-1
bluez-libs 5.34-1
bluez-plugins 5.34-1
bluez-utils 5.34-1

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Update - I noticed that my systemd version was 226-1, but the first boot message is 'Starting version 225'. So I downgraded systemd, then obex file transfers are OK again

Last edited by lmello (2015-09-23 21:32:32)

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toga

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2015-01-10

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth file transfer - obex problem

systemctl --user start obex
sudo systemctl --global enable obex

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth file transfer - obex problem

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45816

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t0ken

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Registered: 2012-06-29

Posts: 29

Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth file transfer - obex problem

systemctl --user start obex
sudo systemctl --global enable obex

Awesome, worked perfectly for me after having just ran into this issue as well, thanks.

PTBM133A4X

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Registered: 2011-10-30

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth file transfer - obex problem

Thanks toga! Nice first post!

The first command didn't work

Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory

But the 2nd command got things working

Last edited by PTBM133A4X (2015-09-25 15:39:20)

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