Same behaviour for soft blocking the device: rfkill block bluetooth
rfkill list bluetooth 2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no rfkill unblock bluetooth rfkill list bluetooth 2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 9: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no Result: Bluetooth not working and indicator-applet is gray. There's already a debian bug for soft unblocking: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812150 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #812150 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812150 ** Also affects: systemd via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812150 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Summary changed: - bluetooth unavailable after rfkill hard blocking and unblocking + bluetooth unavailable after rfkill hard (or soft) unblocking -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1603715 Title: bluetooth unavailable after rfkill hard (or soft) unblocking To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/systemd/+bug/1603715/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs