[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#440078: bluez-utils: cannot pair with my phone

[W. Martin Borgert]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.13-1
Severity: important

Maybe it's entirely my fault, but I don't get my laptop paired
with my mobile phone. The phone asks for a passcode, I enter
1234 (the one that is in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf), and get a
"Pairing failed". README.Debian says, bluez-gnome provides a
passkey agent, but I don't know how to find or use it (I'm
using XFCE and/or the command line). The example program in C
(are users really supposed to compile some code, put the result
without control of the package management and without manual
page to some place?) does not change the situation.

I remember, that I was able to pair my phone from another Debian
machine with the same USB bluetooth adaptor some months ago. I
do not remember, which software versions were on that machine,
however. I can pair my phone with a N770, btw.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  dbus                         1.1.1-3     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libbluetooth2                3.15-1      Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.6.1-1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.1.1-3     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.14.0-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-7  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-23.1    Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-83    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                         0.105-4     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages bluez-utils recommends:
ii  bluez-gnome                   0.13-1     Bluetooth utilities for GNOME

-- no debconf information