[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#656567: bluez: hid2hci makes impossible to enter cryptdisks passphrase

[Jonathan Schultz]

Package: bluez
Version: 4.97-1
Severity: normal

Because hci2hid is called when udev starts, any affected HID devices become unusable until bluetooth is started. In particular this affects cryptdisks (and cryptdisks-early) which rely on the keyboard for entering the passphrase.

It would be helpful if the udev rule in /lib/udev/rules.d/97-bluetooth-hid2hci.rules were to check whether the bluetooth daemon had started, and if not, delay calling hid2hci, say by writing the command into a file that /etc/init.d/bluetooth will run when starting bluetooth. For completeness sake, it could also set up a command to return the device to HID mode when stopping the bluetooth daemon.



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

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bluez depends on:
ii  dbus               1.4.16-1
ii  libc6              2.13-23
ii  libcap-ng0         0.6.6-1
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.16-1
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.30.2-4
ii  libreadline6       6.2-8
ii  libudev0           175-3
ii  libusb-0.1-4       2:0.1.12-19
ii  lsb-base           3.2-28
ii  module-init-tools  3.16-1
ii  python-dbus        0.84.0-2
ii  python-gobject     3.0.3-1
ii  udev               175-3

bluez recommends no packages.

bluez suggests no packages.

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