[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: bluez-utils: The inquiry scan (ISCAN) gets turned off

[Jaime Alberto Silva]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.1-3.1
Severity: important

Whenever I try to discover the local system (Debian computer) from a remote
system (mobile device, or other computer) it can't be found. After
some research I found out that the ISCAN mode is disabled:

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# hciconfig hci0
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:0E:6D:3B:31:AE ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
        UP RUNNING PSCAN
        RX bytes:3190 acl:16 sco:0 events:208 errors:0
        TX bytes:1840 acl:17 sco:0 commands:105 errors:0
--------------------------------------------------------------------

But according to my hcid.conf file it should be enabled by default for
all devices, I'm using the prepackaged hcid.conf :

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# cat /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
#
# HCI daemon configuration file.
#

# HCId options
options {
        # Automatically initialize new devices
        autoinit yes;

        # Security Manager mode
        #   none - Security manager disabled
        #   auto - Use local PIN for incoming connections
        #   user - Always ask user for a PIN
        #
        security auto;

        # Pairing mode
        #   none  - Pairing disabled
        #   multi - Allow pairing with already paired devices
        #   once  - Pair once and deny successive attempts
        pairing multi;

        # Default PIN code for incoming connections
        passkey "1234";
}

# Default settings for HCI devices
device {
        # Local device name
        #   %d - device id
        #   %h - host name
        name "%h-%d";

        # Local device class
        class 0x3e0100;

        # Default packet type
        #pkt_type DH1,DM1,HV1;

        # Inquiry and Page scan
        pscan enable; iscan enable;

        # Default link mode
        #   none   - no specific policy
        #   accept - always accept incoming connections
        #   master - become master on incoming connections,
        #            deny role switch on outgoing connections
        lm accept;

        # Default link policy
        #   none    - no specific policy
        #   rswitch - allow role switch
        #   hold    - allow hold mode
        #   sniff   - allow sniff mode
        #   park    - allow park mode
        lp rswitch,hold,sniff,park;
}
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In an effort to make the Debian computer visible to other devices
I'm running the following command:

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# hciconfig hci0 piscan
# hciconfig hci0
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:0E:6D:3B:31:AE ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
        UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
        RX bytes:3294 acl:16 sco:0 events:221 errors:0
        TX bytes:1878 acl:17 sco:0 commands:112 errors:0
--------------------------------------------------------------------

But after a while the ISCAN mode gets disabled and I must keep running
hciconfig to make the computer visible again.

I have tried with two USB-BLUETOOTH dongles of different brands
and the problem persists.

I have also tried it in sid and etch with the same results.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=es_CO, LC_CTYPE=es_CO (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  libbluetooth2                3.1-1       Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-18    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-2                  0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-2  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-12      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-82    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.2.2-3     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                     2.4.27.0-6  Linux module utilities
ii  sysvinit                     2.86.ds1-15 System-V-like init utilities
ii  udev                         0.093-1     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

bluez-utils recommends no packages.

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