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From: Oxfordshire, UK

Registered: 2012-05-05

Posts: 90

Sudden problem with bluetooth

I've got blueman, bluez-utils and the pulse-audio bluetooth support loaded. I'm using a bluetooth speaker which was working fine with this combination in an Xfce desktop. Don't use it all that often, but in the last few days, when I try and connect the bluetooth audio sink, I'm getting this error:

Connection Failed blueman.bluez errors DBusFaildError
Host is down

Subsequent tries get the same error, but with "Resource temporarily unavailable" instead of the "host is down" error. Looking at updates, I see that bluez was updated on the 5th of April. Reverting to bluez-5.49-1 has solved the problem. Mainly curious - is anyone else seeing this sort of problem?

I've also got Mint installed on the laptop - no problems at all with the bluetooth speaker when I'm running it.

Paul.

ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Re: Sudden problem with bluetooth

I've got blueman, bluez-utils and the pulse-audio bluetooth support loaded. I'm using a bluetooth speaker which was working fine with this combination in an Xfce desktop. Don't use it all that often, but in the last few days, when I try and connect the bluetooth audio sink, I'm getting this error:

Connection Failed blueman.bluez errors DBusFaildError
Host is down

Subsequent tries get the same error, but with "Resource temporarily unavailable" instead of the "host is down" error. Looking at updates, I see that bluez was updated on the 5th of April. Reverting to bluez-5.49-1 has solved the problem. Mainly curious - is anyone else seeing this sort of problem?

I've also got Mint installed on the laptop - no problems at all with the bluetooth speaker when I'm running it.

Paul.

Exact same issue for me to.

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toothandnail

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From: Oxfordshire, UK

Registered: 2012-05-05

Posts: 90

Re: Sudden problem with bluetooth

I've found the situation more complicated than I thought. Simply going back to earlier versions of bluez, bluez-libs and bluez-utils didn't do anything. I ended up having to delete the speaker, scan for it again and configure it from scratch. I'm going to try doing the same with the later version of the software and see if that helps.

I've no idea why I had to remove the existing configuration to get it to work again, but at least it now seems to be working...

Paul.

c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

Posts: 421

Re: Sudden problem with bluetooth

I ended up having to delete the speaker, scan for it again and configure it from scratch. I'm going to try doing the same with the later version of the software and see if that helps...
I've no idea why I had to remove the existing configuration to get it to work again, but at least it now seems to be working...Paul.

I've had to do that on occasion, when testing another distribution's LiveISO and pairing it with my external BT speaker. It seems to set a hardware ID that requires a new acquisition when returning to my installed OS.

Last edited by c00ter (2018-04-13 00:51:32)

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