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DesertVarnish

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Registered: 2017-08-21

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[SOLVED] Bluetooth bugginess with bluez 5.73-3

After upgrading bluez from 5.72-2 to 5.73-3, I ran into issues when (dis)connecting devices or trying to turn off Bluetooth using the blueman frontend. In certain cases blueman-applet crashes when I try to connect a device.

I have the following bluez packages installed:

bluez 5.73-3
bluez-libs 5.73-3
bluez-utils 5.73-3

Also using blueman 2.3.5-3 if that affects things.

I've confirmed the bluez{,-*} upgrade alone causes the issue, and I got back to a working setup by downgrading back to 5.72-2.

I've checked the open issues in Arch Linux GitLab and the bluez upstream, but none appear to be related. If this turns out to be a bluez bug unrelated to Arch Linux, I can open an issue with upstream.

Unfortunately I don't have many Bluetooth devices, nor am I fluent with tools like bluetoothctl, so I am unable to test this more extensively on my own.

Last edited by DesertVarnish (2024-03-17 04:02:51)

DesertVarnish

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Registered: 2017-08-21

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth bugginess with bluez 5.73-3

Solved: looks like bluez 5.73-4 fixes it.