Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth
Using a Dell Latitude D630 laptop that has a hardware bluetooth
killswitch (or, a combined wifi/bluetooth kill switch which in my case
is configured in the BIOS to only kill bt).
When using this switch, the gnome-bluetooth applet and the rfkill cli
program show confusing information about whether bt is on or not.
I have attached screenshots and 'rfkill list' output.
When bluetooth is off by hardware switch:
* the bt icon has a red X (i.e. "off" state), mouseover the icon shows
"Bluetooth: Disabled" (bt-switch-off1.png)
* clicking on the icon the menu also shows "Bluetooth Disabled"
(bt-switch-off2.png)
* 'rfkill list' shows a dell-bluetooth adapter with soft and hard 'off'
(bt-switch-off)
this seems correct.
But when bluetooth is on:
* the bt icon is normal (i.e. "on" state"), mouseover the icon shows
"Bluetooth: Enabled" (bt-switch-on1.png)
* BUT: klicking on the bt icon the first entry in the pop-up menu is a greyed
out "Bluetooth Disabled" (bt-switch-on2.png)
* Also: 'rfkill' list' shows dell-bluetooth still as soft and hard 'off', but
has added a new adapter hci0 with soft and hard 'on' (bt-switch-on)
The behaviour of gnome-bluetooth seems ok, so this is probably a purely UI
issue, but confusing nonetheless.
Possibly this bug has the same origins as Bug #445326
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 15:50:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.39-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:2325): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2507): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:2493): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(gnome-panel:2471): Gdk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a
pixmap or window
** Affects: gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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confusing/contradictory info about bluetooth status (on/off)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445462
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