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NightSky
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Bluetooth fails to enable

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Hey,

I want to start off by saying that I'm new to Linux. All help is very much appreciated.

My OS is recently installed Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, and in first use my bluetooth headphones worked flawlessly. I switched the bluetooth off from the panel after use, figured that it's easy to just turn back on when I need it.

Fast forward to couple of days later when I tried to enable the bluetooth back on: When I press the Bluetooth symbol from the panel, it opens the Bluetooth Devices window, but "Enable Bluetooth" just closes the whole thing and nothing happens. I'm unable to click anything else except that and "Exit". They both just close it. I managed to get this from the Terminal by using rfkill list:

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0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes
1: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no
It's not locked on the BIOS, and my Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 11e 6th Gen doesn't have a physical button either. I have no idea how or why this has happened.

Here's my "System information" from the System Reports window:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-100-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4
    tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 20SES00D00 v: ThinkPad 11e Yoga Gen 6
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 31 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 20SES00D00 v: SDK0L22692 WIN serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: R18ET33W (1.17 ) date: 11/11/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 26.4 Wh (56.9%) condition: 46.4/46.0 Wh (100.9%) volts: 15.6 min: 15.4
    model: SMP LNV-5B10W13881 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Discharging cycles: 11
  Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:2A41.0001-battery model: ELAN901C:00 04F3:2A41 serial: N/A charge: N/A
    status: N/A
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core m3-8100Y bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Amber/Kaby Lake note: check rev: 9 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2704 high: 2757 min/max: 400/3400 cores: 1: 2700 2: 2757 3: 2683 4: 2676
    bogomips: 12799
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 615 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591c class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:3
    chip-ID: 04f2:b6d9 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: Chicony Integrated 5M Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-9:4
    chip-ID: 04f2:b616 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Chi Mei Innolux res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 136
    size: 256x144mm (10.1x5.7") diag: 294mm (11.6") modes: 1366x768
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 615 (AML-KBL) v: 4.6 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-100-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2526 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: usb0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.92 bus-ID: 1-5:2
    chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1
    sub-v: 100 hci-v: 5.1 rev: 100
  Device-2: Samsung Galaxy series misc. (tethering mode) type: USB driver: rndis_host v: kernel
    bus-ID: 2-3:4 chip-ID: 04e8:6863 class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 88.56 GiB (37.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Toshiba model: KBG40ZNT256G MEMORY size: 238.47 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0109AELA temp: 28.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.18 GiB used: 88.55 GiB (38.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 1.5 MiB (0.1%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-5:2 info: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
  Device-2: 1-7:3 info: Chicony Integrated Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b6d9 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 1-9:4 info: Chicony Integrated 5M Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b616 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-3:4 info: Samsung Galaxy series misc. (tethering mode) type: Bluetooth,CDC-Data
    driver: rndis_host interfaces: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 64mA chip-ID: 04e8:6863
    class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C pch: 39.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2234 apt: 2218 flatpak: 16
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb https: //ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/linuxmint.com/packages virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 247 Uptime: 39m wakeups: 19611 Memory: 7.64 GiB used: 3.06 GiB (40.1%) Init: systemd
  v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Unknown python3.10 client
  inxi: 3.3.13
Any ideas how to fix this?
Last edited by SMG on Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Moved from Software & Applications to Networking because this issue is with Bluetooth.
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