[SOLVED] Bluez Daemon not running

[ecosil]

I am using the latest GNOME version on two laptops. I had the bluetooth manager working initially, but now it won't start because the bluez daemon is not running. This happened on both laptops. I do not see this daemon in Services and Daemons in the Control Center, so how can I can start it again?

[djohnston]

Try service start bluez . If you get errors, post back.

[Texstar]

bluetooth is handled by udev now there are no more daemons. Try installing blueman.

[ecosil]

Try service start bluez . If you get errors, post back.

When I type "service -f bluez" I get the message "cannot find /etc/init.d/bluez". According to synaptic, both bluez and blueman are installed.

[djohnston]

Texstar corrected my assumption. Please see his post.

[ecosil]

Texstar corrected my assumption. Please see his post.

I do not understand his post. I reinstalled blueman and bluez and bluetooth still does not start.

[djohnston]

OK. In a terminal,

su -
bluetoothd -u
exit
exit

Now check Bluetooth Manager and see if your device is listed.

[ecosil]

OK. In a terminal,

su -
bluetoothd -u
exit
exit

Now check Bluetooth Manager and see if your device is listed.

This worked. After typing it, I can restart bluetooth and it works as before. I noticed I have to do it every time I reboot.

Thanks!

[Texstar]

Is your bluetooth internal or a usb dongle?

Can you add the command to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file and see if it will activate at boot up?

[barakatax]

Thank you Texstar      ,

I have internal bluetooth on laptop HP DV3. It is not working/not detected on PCLOS KDE 2010.07 with all packages updated.
I do not know why, but I guess I did something wrong.

The error message is :
Connection to BlueZ failed.
Bluez daemon is not running.
Blueman-manager can not continue.


Until I found this post after did a search in this forum.
Just add the command from your suggestion to the mentioned file and now the bluetooth starts every boot.


Regards,
barakatax

[gallup]

Is your bluetooth internal or a usb dongle?

Can you add the command to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file and see if it will activate at boot up?

This worked wonderfully for my usb dongle too. This is the thread on bluetooth I have been searching for  and now it starts automatically too

[drhadidy]

ok... i tried this command and it worked fine for sometime...
i even added it to the file texstar mentioned and it worked fine and started automatically...
but now suddenly i cant launch the bluetooth manager anymore from E17!!!
dont know what happened exactly... but now when i need to use the bluetooth on this laptop i have to log out from E17 and do it from KDE4 interface...
even before i used to start bluetooth from KDE4 and log out and into E17 to find it working... now it doesnt work anymore in E17!!!
im using a USB dongle on this laptop...
any ideas??

[djohnston]

drhadidy,

Are you plugging and unplugging the USB dongle, or does it stay plugged in all the time?

Please run lsusb in a terminal and post the results, pointing out which device is the dongle.

Have you also tried restarting the bluetooth daemon from e17 by doing the following?

su -
bluetoothd -u
exit
exit


EDIT:

but now suddenly i cant launch the bluetooth manager anymore from E17!!!

OK, the daemon is probably running, but the manager won't start. Try this: restart e17 by doing the three key combination of Ctrl-Alt-End. It will take a couple of seconds for e17 to restart. Or, you can restart e17 from the menu at Main > Enlightenment > Restart. See if the bluetooth manager will start after that.