#1125240 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd: Cannot turn Bluetooth back on after turning it off

Package:
bluez
Source:
bluez
Description:
Bluetooth tools and daemons
Submitter:
Ralf Jung
Date:
2026-01-11 12:09:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1125240#5
Date:
2026-01-11 12:06:03 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Fairly often but not always when I disable bluetooth, I cannot turn it back on:
- I click the button in the Gnome UI to disable bluetooth
- I click it again to turn bluetooth back on
- Nothing happens: The UI first indicates something is happening with this 3-dot symbol, then after a few seconds it goes back to bluetooth being off

I now have to reboot the entire system to use bluetooth again, which is rather disruptive.

This used to work fine on the same laptop until mid/late last year. It was
broken by an update since then. I have no idea where in the bluetooth stack the
problem lies, bluez just seemed like the most obvious first place to report
this.

Here is the systemd log for that entire sequence, filtered to messages that mention bluetooth:

Jan 11 12:57:18 r-ethtop bluetoothd[1074]: Controller resume with wake event 0x0
Jan 11 12:59:50 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c1a tx timeout
Jan 11 12:59:50 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Initiating acpi reset method
Jan 11 12:59:50 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c1a failed: -110
Jan 11 12:59:50 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Error when powering off device on rfkill (-110)
Jan 11 12:59:53 r-ethtop bluetoothd[1074]: src/profile.c:record_cb() Unable to get Hands-Free Voice gateway SDP record: Software caused connection abort
Jan 11 12:59:53 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c1a tx timeout
Jan 11 12:59:53 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: acpi: last reset failed ? Not resetting again
Jan 11 12:59:53 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: HCI reset during shutdown failed
Jan 11 12:59:53 r-ethtop gnome-shell[2643]: Failed to connect device "JLab GO Air Sport": GDBus.Error:org.bluez.Error.Failed: br-connection-aborted-by-local
Jan 11 12:59:54 r-ethtop bluetoothd[1074]: Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03)
Jan 11 12:59:56 r-ethtop bluetoothd[1074]: Failed to set mode: Authentication Failed (0x05)
Jan 11 12:59:56 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c03 failed: -110
Jan 11 13:00:00 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c03 failed: -110
Jan 11 13:00:00 r-ethtop bluetoothd[1074]: Failed to set mode: Authentication Failed (0x05)
Jan 11 13:00:03 r-ethtop bluetoothd[1074]: Failed to set mode: Authentication Failed (0x05)
Jan 11 13:00:03 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c03 failed: -110
Jan 11 13:00:04 r-ethtop systemd[2425]: Started app-gnome-gnome\x2dbluetooth\x2dpanel-860008.scope - Application launched by gnome-shell.
Jan 11 13:00:05 r-ethtop gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[860008]: MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:993: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers
Jan 11 13:00:05 r-ethtop gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[860008]: MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:959: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers
Jan 11 13:00:09 r-ethtop bluetoothd[1074]: Failed to set mode: Authentication Failed (0x05)
Jan 11 13:00:09 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c03 failed: -110
Jan 11 13:02:22 r-ethtop bluetoothd[1074]: Failed to set mode: Authentication Failed (0x05)
Jan 11 13:02:22 r-ethtop kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c03 failed: -110

Kind regards,
Ralf