[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#382269: bluez-utils: workaround for getting a pin entered

[Koos van den Hout]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.7-1
Followup-For: Bug #382269


I ran into the same problem: cannot (re)establish a pairing because 
there is no working pin agent, and trying to install bluez-pin wants to
remove bluez-utils.

I tried bluetooth-applet, but it did not come up with a pin request at 
the right time (according to the syslog it did register as bluetooth pin 
agent). I use fvwm as window manager.

I tried multiple ways of entering the pin in the filesystem, none of 
which worked. Looking at /etc/bluetooth/passkeys/* shows none of those
were read by the bluez-utils processes.

In the end, I found 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez-utils/+bug/56651 where 'Dan 
V' shows a workaround to getting at least the passkey-agent compiled. 
I got far enough to have a compiled passkey-agent, and that worked for 
the one pairing I needed.

Yes, this is quite frustrating, when the basic utilities (bluez-utils) 
cannot be installed at the same time as a basic pincode agent 
(bluez-pin). I hope the above url helps people who need a quick fix.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.32
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  dbus                        1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libbluetooth2               3.7-1        Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libusb-0.1-4                2:0.1.12-2   userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  makedev                     2.3.1-83     creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools           3.3-pre4-1   tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                    2.4.27.0-6   Linux module utilities

Versions of packages bluez-utils recommends:
ii  bluez-gnome [bluez-passkey-gn 0.6-1      Bluetooth utilities for GNOME

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