bluetooth applet

[Frank Elsner]

Hi,

today I discovered that I can't enable bluetooth via the Blueman Applet.
When I click on "Turn Bluetooth On" nothing happend.

What might be the reason? 

I should note that I upgraded the Fedora 23 before I discoverd
the problem.


--Frank Elsner

bluetooth applet [SOLVED]

[Frank Elsner]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:15:33 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  today I discovered that I can't enable bluetooth via the Blueman Applet.
>  When I click on "Turn Bluetooth On" nothing happend.
>  
>  What might be the reason? 
>  
>  I should note that I upgraded the Fedora 23 before I discoverd
>  the problem. 
I've found the solution for broken Blueman Applet:

After downgrading from blueman-1:2.0.4-2.fc23.i686
       to the previous blueman-2.1-0.3.git7a2e20e.fc23.i686

bluetooth is controllable using the applet and works as desired.


--Frank Elsner

bluetooth applet [SOLVED]

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 23:54:47 +0200 Frank Elsner <frank(a)moltke28.B.Shuttle.DE&gt;
wrote:

>  On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:15:33 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > today I discovered that I can't enable bluetooth via the Blueman Applet.
>  > When I click on "Turn Bluetooth On" nothing happend.
>  > 
>  > What might be the reason? 
>  > 
>  > I should note that I upgraded the Fedora 23 before I discoverd
>  > the problem.
>  
>  I've found the solution for broken Blueman Applet:
>  
>  After downgrading from blueman-1:2.0.4-2.fc23.i686
>         to the previous blueman-2.1-0.3.git7a2e20e.fc23.i686
>  
>  bluetooth is controllable using the applet and works as desired.
>   
Hi Frank,

I think that while your solution is workable for you, you may consider filing a bug report
so that the updated package can be resolved to work for cases like yours. The F23 package
is bound to be obsoleted or upgraded to this new package eventually and so you may want to
have that working then when there may not be such a fallback option.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

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bluetooth applet [SOLVED]

[Samuel Sieb]

On 06/26/2016 02:54 PM, Frank Elsner wrote:
>  I've found the solution for broken Blueman Applet:
>
>  After downgrading from blueman-1:2.0.4-2.fc23.i686
>         to the previous blueman-2.1-0.3.git7a2e20e.fc23.i686
>
>  bluetooth is controllable using the applet and works as desired.
>  
That is odd.  For some reason, the version was downgraded, so you 
actually have a newer version now than you did before.  There is no 
reason given in the changelog for the downgrade and it was deliberate 
because there was an epoch bump.

bluetooth applet [SOLVED]

[Heinz Diehl]

On 27.06.2016, Samuel Sieb wrote: 

>  > After downgrading from blueman-1:2.0.4-2.fc23.i686
>  >        to the previous blueman-2.1-0.3.git7a2e20e.fc23.i686
>  > 
>  > bluetooth is controllable using the applet and works as desired. 
 
>  That is odd.  For some reason, the version was downgraded, so you
> actually
>  have a newer version now than you did before. 
FWIW: I just upgraded a laptop from F23 to F24, and during
"system-upgrade download", I remember the download summary showed that
there were 13 packages to be downgraded - on a bog standard F23.

bluetooth applet [SOLVED]

[Samuel Sieb]

On 07/03/2016 11:18 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>  On 27.06.2016, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> >> After downgrading from blueman-1:2.0.4-2.fc23.i686
> >>        to the previous blueman-2.1-0.3.git7a2e20e.fc23.i686
> >>
> >> bluetooth is controllable using the applet and works as desired.
>
> > That is odd.  For some reason, the version was downgraded, so you actually
> > have a newer version now than you did before.
>
>  FWIW: I just upgraded a laptop from F23 to F24, and during
>  "system-upgrade download", I remember the download summary showed that
>  there were 13 packages to be downgraded - on a bog standard F23. 
Yes, sometimes the newer versions of some software haven't been built 
yet for all releases.

However, this one would not have shown up in the "downgraded" list 
because the epoch was bumped, so to dnf/rpm it's actually a "newer" 
version than before.

bluetooth applet [SOLVED]

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/26/2016 02:54 PM, Frank Elsner wrote:
>  On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:15:33 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > today I discovered that I can't enable bluetooth via the Blueman Applet.
> > When I click on "Turn Bluetooth On" nothing happend.
> >
> > What might be the reason? 
> >
> > I should note that I upgraded the Fedora 23 before I discoverd
> > the problem.
>  
>  I've found the solution for broken Blueman Applet:
>  
>  After downgrading from blueman-1:2.0.4-2.fc23.i686
>         to the previous blueman-2.1-0.3.git7a2e20e.fc23.i686
>  
>  bluetooth is controllable using the applet and works as desired. 
I have also seen this with blueman-2.0.4-2.fc23.x86_64. It appears to be
a problem with the python bits:

set_adapter_state
(/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/PowerManager.py:90)
Exception occurred org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method
"Set" with signature "ssb" on interface
"org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist

However, I've gotten it to work by:

	a) Open the applet
	b) Go to the Plugins tab
	c) Disable the Killswitch and PowerManager options
	d) Re-enable PowerManager

Then right-click on the applet and select "Turn Bluetooth On", it
seems to work.

What a kludge, though.

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bluetooth applet [SOLVED]

[Samuel Sieb]

On 06/27/2016 10:42 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>  I have also seen this with blueman-2.0.4-2.fc23.x86_64. It appears to
> be
>  a problem with the python bits:
>
>  set_adapter_state
>  (/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/blueman/plugins/applet/PowerManager.py:90)
>  Exception occurred org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method
>  "Set" with signature "ssb" on interface
>  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist
>  
There's a comment in the changelog for 2.0.4-2 that there's an attempt 
to fix the dbus errors.  I guess it didn't work.