Rick, Can you confirm the version of bluez you have installed? We were under the belief that this was all taken care of now by bluez 4.98-0ubuntu4, but if not maybe it will be time to think about simplifying the bluetooth upstart jobs to just start no matter what.
However, bluetooth-applet should have been started anyway by the session, regardless of the state of bluetoothd, even if it wouldn't show if there is both no device detected and no bluetoothd daemon running. What I mean by that is even on one of my systems fully up to date with no bluetooth adapter, bluetooth-applet is always running. It should be the case on your system as well. ** Changed in: gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913785 Title: bluetooth-applet doesn't start automatically on Precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-bluetooth/+bug/913785/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs