Please advise: I see the same problem as the original poster. This is a fresh install of Xubuntu 10.4: Pairing does not work, the computer/adapter is invisible.
Funny thing, yesterday after some experimenting, all of a sudden, the bluetooth applet lost the (x) and I could pair the phone. Today, however all is back to its nonworking state, except wammu works, as the phone is paired now! I reinstalled all bluez packages $ dpkg -l blue* |grep tooth ii bluetooth 4.60-0ubuntu8 Bluetooth support ii bluez 4.60-0ubuntu8 Bluetooth tools and daemons ii bluez-alsa 4.60-0ubuntu8 Bluetooth audio support ii bluez-cups 4.60-0ubuntu8 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS ii bluez-gstreamer 4.60-0ubuntu8 Bluetooth GStreamer support $ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/bluez* when plugging in the dongle, syslog writes: May 1 14:23:34 lazy kernel: [13878.950015] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 May 1 14:23:34 lazy kernel: [13879.123106] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5236]: Bluetooth daemon 4.60 May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: Starting SDP server May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: Starting experimental netlink support May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: Failed to find Bluetooth netlink family May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: Failed to init netlink plugin May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: bridge pan0 created May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: HCI dev 0 registered May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: HCI dev 0 up May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: Starting security manager 0 May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: probe failed with driver input-headset for device /org/bluez/5236/hci0/dev_08_00_28_48_2D_C2 May 1 14:23:34 lazy bluetoothd[5237]: Adapter /org/bluez/5236/hci0 has been enabled bluetoothd will not create the org.bluez node in DBUS, I use this command to test that: # dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames following that, the sample bluez script fails: # /usr/share/doc/bluez/examples/list-devices the last line of the message reads: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files -- Bluetoothd cannot talk to D-BUS/HAL/... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458817 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs