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grobber

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Registered: 2018-02-09

Posts: 39

bluetooth fails to connect to any devices: device or resource busy

I am having a hard time connecting to any devices through bluetoothctl (from bluez-utils), following the instructions on the wiki.

I can start bluetoothctl just fine, scan for and pair devices. When I attempt to connect, however, one of two things happens:

• I get a brief connection that dies in seconds, or

• I get the error

Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed

When attempting to connect to a pair of bluetooth earbuds, for instance, the relevant journalctl entries seem to be

Unable to get Headset Voice gateway SDP record: Device or resource busy
bluetoothd[1357]: connect error: Device or resource busy (16)
bluetoothd[1357]: connect error: Device or resource busy (16)

I've received the same errors when trying to connect a LineageOS phone.

So the pair-but-not-connect issue does not seem to be the one noted in the wiki entry, relating to pulseaudio: in fact, I used to receive a2dp-source errors initially and resolved those by following the wiki instructions I just linked to (install pulseaudio-bluetooth, etc.).

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,381

Re: bluetooth fails to connect to any devices: device or resource busy

Are you using GDM? Try disabling it from blocking your headset:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bl … e_with_GDM

grobber

Member

Registered: 2018-02-09

Posts: 39

Re: bluetooth fails to connect to any devices: device or resource busy

Are you using GDM?

No display manager of any kind: the system boots to a tty and then I open a graphical session with `startx' (.xinitrc calls i3).