I'm having the same or very similar problem. When I turn Bluetooth off I am not able to turn it on again. It just pops back to off. The only way for me to get it enabled again is first run: sudo rfkill list all, find the bluetooth device:
2: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no I then run sudo rfkill unblock 2 and I can turn on Bluetooth again. I do not understand why the it's being "soft blocked". I have tried booting Manjaro Gnome and it doesn't have this problem, so it seems to be a Ubuntu problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244764 Title: ubuntu 13.10 bluetooth not working correctly Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: 1) razvan@razvan-asus:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 2) razvan@razvan-asus:~$ apt-cache policy bluez bluez: Installed: 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 Candidate: 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 Version table: *** 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 0 500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3, 4) I installed Ubuntu 13.10 from scratch yesterday and I paired my phone + a pair of speakers to the bluetooth of my ASUS U31S laptop. Today (after recovering from sleep mode) I was unable to connect back to the speakers (I haven't tried yet the phone. I issued "sudo service bluetooth restart" and looked at /var/log/syslog: Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[764]: Terminating Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[764]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[764]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[764]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[764]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[764]: Stopping SDP server Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[764]: Exit Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Bluetooth daemon 4.101 Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Starting SDP server Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: DIS cannot start: GATT is disabled Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Failed to init deviceinfo plugin Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Failed to init proximity plugin Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Failed to init time plugin Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Failed to init alert plugin Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Failed to init thermometer plugin Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Failed to init gatt_example plugin Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Bluetooth Management interface initialized Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: input-headset driver probe failed for device 7C:61:93:D4:A5:8F Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Adapter /org/bluez/3231/hci0 has been enabled Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Unknown command complete for opcode 19 Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: hci0: Get Connections (0x0015) failed: Not Powered (0x0f) Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource Oct 25 19:30:02 razvan-asus bluetoothd[3231]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink The problem is, when I go to "System settings" and turn off the bluetooth, the tray icon (I guess indicator-bluetooth-service) dissapears and if I turn it back on the icon doesn't reappear. Also when I try connecting to the speakers I see "bluetoothd[3644]: connect: No route to host (113)" in /var/log/syslog and the button remains on "OFF" possition of course. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1244764/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp