Hi

On a ThinkPad T61 the Bluetooth applet shows the big "Turn On Bluetooth" button even though bluetooth has been disabled with the hardware switch.

Pressing the button of course doesn't do anything.

It's confusing to display a button that doesn't do anything. It would be better to display a text instructing the user to use the hardware switch in this situation.

Regards
Tomaž

Following is the output from bluetooth-applet on the console:

On start up:

** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2
** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2
** Message: adding killswitch idx 0 state 2
** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2

After click on the "Turn On" button:

** Message: RFKILL event: idx 0 type 2 op 2 soft 0 hard 1

** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2
** Message: RFKILL event: idx 0 type 2 op 2 soft 0 hard 1

** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2

Looks like I'm not able to reproduce this behaviour. If I either close
my bluetooth interface or I directly remove the USB dongle what I get
is seeing my g-bluetooth's status icon disappearing saying me that there
are no bluetooth interfaces connected to the PC. (so I can't enable /
disable it anymore since the buttons disappeared right after removing
the USB dongle)

cheers,

Hi
gnome-bluetooth 0.9.1-1 to 2.28.3-2.

Now when I turn off wireless I only get a red X over the bluetooth icon.
When I right-click on it, it says "Bluetooth: Disabled".

Judging by "lsusb" and dmesg, "Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth Controller"
actually disappears from the USB bus when I throw the switch, so I have
no idea why the applet knows there's a bluetooth adapter in the system.

Please tell me if I can provide any more information.

Regards
Tomaž

Hello,

I'm in a similar situation as the original poster.  Bluetooth is
reported to be enabled, but there's the red cross in the applet.
See http://strlen.de/ukleinek/bluetoothbug.jpg for a screenshot.
Obviously I cannot enable it, my "problem" here is, that bluetoothd is
not running.   (I havn't investigated *why* it's not running yet.)

IMHO the bluetooth applet should be able to handle that situation (i.e.
no running bluetoothd) more smooth.

When I start bluetoothd as root, the cross goes away and the applet
becomes usable.

Best regards
Uwe

Dear submitter,

as the package gnome-bluetooth has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1093420

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