UP7 Breaks Bluetooth?

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UP7 Breaks Bluetooth?

Post by genosensor »

After updating from UP6 to UP7, I find that I can no longer connect to any of my bluetooth devices.
I had been using blueman in UP6.
Now, on connect to the headset service of a PLT_Legend (headset), it reports

Connection Failed: Connect failed

On "Refresh Connection" is seems to connect for about 5 seconds, then it disconnects.
(the headset never indicates it is connected, so I doubt the PC ever did)

Has anyone managed to connect to bluetooth devices after updating to UP7?

If so, please send details of whatever worked for you.
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Monsta
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Re: UP7 Breaks Bluetooth?

Post by Monsta »

genosensor wrote:Connection Failed: Connect failed
Looks like this upstream bug: http://bugs.debian.org/705800

No fix provided yet.
Since the last comment appeared there in May, and the issue seems abandoned, I suggest adding another comment (you can at least ask if there's a workaround available).
genosensor

Re: UP7 Breaks Bluetooth?

Post by genosensor »

The version in the Debian repo LMDE UP7 is pulling appears to be patched.
One workaround seems to be to build the unpatched v1.23 blueman from source found here:

http://download.tuxfamily.org/blueman/blueman-1.23.tar.gz

Thanks for the tip!
I'll raise the issue on the appropriate dev lists after I've tested a bit more.
genosensor

Re: UP7 Breaks Bluetooth?

Post by genosensor »

Further testing shows that blueman v1.21 is better than v1.23 for two reasons:

1) Does not require service bluetooth restart before first connection can be made

2) tool tip on applet icon in status bar does not flicker

get it at:

http://download.tuxfamily.org/blueman/blueman-1.21.tar.gz
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Re: UP7 Breaks Bluetooth?

Post by Monsta »

I don't know if there are any problems with the Debian patches, but you can get 1.21 or 1.23 or any other version from [url=http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/blueman/]this snapshot.debian.org page[/url]. No need to compile from the upstream source.
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Re: UP7 Breaks Bluetooth?

Post by abtygwyn »

I followed the links and ended up being told it was safer to download the package using the the normal synaptic package manager.
I installed blueman as instructed and hey presto, it now works again.

Thanks
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LZux

Re: UP7 Breaks Bluetooth?

Post by LZux »

I did a quick look as I recently went to UP7, the error was about the obex client.
So I downgraded the packages below to the "debian stable" respository version and it seems to work for us.
Please note that I dont know if this is a good/safe solution to use.

Downgraded the following packages:
libopenobex1 1.5-2.1
obexd-client 0.46-1+b1
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