[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#758177: Bug#758177: blue: "hcitool dev" yields no device although the Laptop has 2 bluetooth apadpters.

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

severity 758177 important
thanks

Hi,

Please run the hcicinfig.
If you are not able to obtain an output such as the following, is not able to
recognize the bluetooth host device on your machine.

$ hciconfig
hci0: Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
BD Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:EF  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
RX bytes:14637 acl:0 sco:0 events:1517 errors:0
TX bytes:13791 acl:0 sco:0 commands:782 errors:0

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

2014-08-15 12:39 GMT+09:00 Kumar Abhishek <kumar.os.tester at gmail.com>:
> Package: bluetooth
> Version: 4.101-4.1
> Severity: grave
> File: blue
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>    * What led up to the situation?
> ==> Wanted to use the bluetooth to pair my laptop to my phone and a portable bluetooth speaker.
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> ==> I had restarted bluetooth service from init.d.
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> ==> The service restarted successfully without any error, but the adapters still could not be detected.
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> ==> Expected that the service restart could start the bluetooth adapter
>
> -----------------------------
> root at debiantesting:/var/log# /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
> [ ok ] Stopping bluetooth: rfcomm /usr/sbin/bluetoothd.
> [ ok ] Starting bluetooth: bluetoothd rfcomm.
>
> root at debiantesting:/var/log# dmesg | grep -i blue
> [    6.562242] usb 8-4: Product: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
> [   10.738355] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.17
> [   10.738389] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
> [   10.738402] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
> [   10.738407] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
> [   10.738415] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
> [   12.000574] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed
> [   24.963833] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
> [   24.963850] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
> [   24.963863] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
> [   25.043101] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
> [   25.043107] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
> [   25.043121] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
> root at debiantesting:/var/log#
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> hp-pavillion g6 2010ax : AMD APU A8(4500m) Dual Graphic Card
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages bluetooth depends on:
> ii  bluez  4.101-4.1
>
> Versions of packages bluetooth recommends:
> ii  bluez-alsa       4.101-4.1
> ii  bluez-gstreamer  4.101-4.1
>
> Versions of packages bluetooth suggests:
> pn  bluez-cups  <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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