[Bug 445462] [NEW] confusing/contradictory info about bluetooth status (on/off)

Janne Hyötylä janne.hyotyla at gmx.net
Wed Oct 7 15:04:06 BST 2009


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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