I also have such error messages, and I'm in stretch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ solitone@alan:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth status ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-01-19 08:13:37 CET; 5h 55min ago Docs: man:bluetoothd(8) Main PID: 475 (bluetoothd) Status: "Running" Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service └─475 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
Jan 19 08:13:37 alan systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service... Jan 19 08:13:37 alan bluetoothd[475]: Bluetooth daemon 5.43 Jan 19 08:13:37 alan bluetoothd[475]: Starting SDP server Jan 19 08:13:37 alan systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service. Jan 19 08:13:37 alan bluetoothd[475]: Bluetooth management interface 1.13 initialized Jan 19 08:13:37 alan bluetoothd[475]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic Jan 19 08:13:37 alan bluetoothd[475]: Sap driver initialization failed. Jan 19 08:13:37 alan bluetoothd[475]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I don't know whether it's related, but I can't connect to any device. I can just pair with them. I've also tried with bluetoothctl, like Thorsten, but it won't work in my system: solitone@alan:~$ bluetoothctl [NEW] Controller 98:01:A7:9D:0F:BE alan [default] [NEW] Device 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 Nexus 5X [bluetooth]# pair 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 Attempting to pair with 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists [bluetooth]# connect 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 Attempting to connect to 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed [bluetooth]# unblock 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 Changing 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 unblock succeeded [bluetooth]# connect 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 Attempting to connect to 78:F8:82:48:55:C3 Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed [bluetooth]#