[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#758704: bluetoothctl not accepting input

[Richard Lewis]

Package: bluetooth
Version: 5.21-2
Severity: important

Hi there,

When I run bluetoothctl I get a [bluetooth]# command prompt but it
doesn't echo any of my input. The only thing it reacts to is Ctrl+C
which causes a fresh prompt to appear on the following line.

I can kill the process with SIGTERM. Occasionally, this has
resulted in the terminal (urxvt in my case) in which bluetooth was
running being killed too. Although that is not consistent.

(Additionally, I am having general problems achieving anything
beyond listing nearby Bluetooth devices with the bluez tools. For
example, bt-agent complains that the bluetoothd daemon is not
running, which it is. Possibly there's some sort of DBus related
issue. Observe:

$ dbus-send --system --dest=org.bluez --print-reply / org.bluez.Manager.DefaultAdapter
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "DefaultAdapter" with signature "" on interface "org.bluez.Manager" doesn't exist

This is not meant a multi-issue bug report, I'm just providing
this information in case it's relevant to the principal issue of
the bluetoothctl utility not working.)

Thanks,
Richard

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bluetooth depends on:
ii  bluez  5.21-2

bluetooth recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bluetooth suggests:
pn  bluez-cups   <none>
pn  bluez-obexd  <none>

-- no debconf information