Bluetooth woes (again)

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 18:10:58 UTC 2015


On Sun, 2015-10-25 at 18:04 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Once again my BT mouse is acting up and I have no idea why. I've been
> using it with no problems for months, through successive updates to
> the
> kernel, and it has Just Worked. Then suddenly it doesn't. The
> configuration dialogues (on both Gnome and KDE) see the mouse and
> give
> its Mac address, show it as paired, trusted and not blocked, but say
> it's "unreachable". The mouse has adequate battery and power cycling
> makes no difference.
> 
> My BT adaptor is a Broadcom dongle. It has up to date firmware (as of
> a
> couple of months ago).
> 
> This has happened several times in the past (e.g. see 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-March/447579.htm
> l)
> and just as suddenly seems to fix itself, sometimes after several
> days
> of complete frustration.
> 
> This is F22 fully updated, using both kernel-4.1.8-200.fc22.x86_64
> and
>  kernel-4.2.3-200.fc22.x86_64
> 
> The mouse has never failed on my other system, a laptop running
> Fedora
> 21 but with a builtin BT adaptor.
> 
> If anyone has something to suggest, I'm all ears.
> 
> poc

Just for completeness, here's a log dump which someone might be able to
understand:

$journalctl -b -l -o short-monotonic | grep -i blue
[    2.294578] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20
[    2.294593] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    2.294596] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    2.294598] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    2.294608] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    2.312726] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 63
[    2.313725] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 0000[    2.339341] Bree kernel: bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd failed with error -2
[    2.339347] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd not found
[    5.102184] Bree systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
[    5.109797] Bree bluetoothd[806]: Bluetooth daemon 5.29
[    5.199531] Bree bluetoothd[806]: Starting SDP server
[    5.201420] Bree systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
[    5.201656] Bree systemd[1]: Reached target Bluetooth.
[    5.201766] Bree systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth.
[    5.201842] Bree audit[1]: <audit-1130> pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=bluetooth comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
[    5.238569] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[    5.238570] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[    5.238574] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[    5.208905] Bree bluetoothd[806]: Bluetooth management interface 1.9 initialized
[    5.209071] Bree bluetoothd[806]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic
[    5.676508] Bree NetworkManager[964]: <info>  Loaded device plugin: NMBluezManager (/usr/lib64/NetworkManager/libnm-device-plugin-bluetooth.so)
[    5.803045] Bree NetworkManager[964]: <info>  use BlueZ version 5
[   24.024427] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   24.024436] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   24.024508] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[   26.882525] Bree bluetoothd[806]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
[   26.882725] Bree bluetoothd[806]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
[   65.605241] Bree bluetoothd[806]: 20:73:13:05:12:E9: error updating services: Host is down (112)
[10902.864929] Bree kernel: Bluetooth: hci0 corrupted ACL packet
[10911.020911] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): Bluetooth-WARNING **: Setting up /org/bluez/hci0/dev_00_22_43_CF_48_8E failed: GDBus.Error:org.bluez.Error.AuthenticationFailed: Authentication Failed
[11006.432150] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ascii_strdown: assertion 'str != NULL' failed
[11007.571248] Bree bluetoothd[806]: ** Message: vendor 0x0 product: 0x0
[11013.479790] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ascii_strdown: assertion 'str != NULL' failed
[11013.480746] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): Bluetooth-WARNING **: Setting up /org/bluez/hci0/dev_20_73_13_05_12_E9 failed: GDBus.Error:org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists: Already Exists
[11016.495833] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ascii_strdown: assertion 'str != NULL' failed
[11016.496891] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): Bluetooth-WARNING **: Setting up /org/bluez/hci0/dev_20_73_13_05_12_E9 failed: GDBus.Error:org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists: Already Exists
[11026.062542] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ascii_strdown: assertion 'str != NULL' failed
[11026.068377] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): Bluetooth-WARNING **: Setting up /org/bluez/hci0/dev_20_73_13_05_12_E9 failed: GDBus.Error:org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists: Already Exists
[11031.432839] Bree gnome-bluetooth-panel.desktop[5970]: (gnome-control-center:5970): Bluetooth-WARNING **: Setting up /org/bluez/hci0/dev_20_73_13_05_12_E9 failed: Timeout was reached
[11047.647849] Bree bluetoothd[806]: 20:73:13:05:12:E9: error updating services: Connection timed out (110)
[11157.216585] Bree bluetoothd[806]: 20:73:13:05:12:E9: error updating services: Connection timed out (110)
[11197.584144] Bree bluetoothd[806]: 20:73:13:05:12:E9: error updating services: Host is down (112)
[12407.096482] Bree bluetoothd[806]: 20:73:13:05:12:E9: error updating services: Host is down (112)

poc



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