[Bug 1036106] [NEW] Unable to configure device with bluez-simple-agent

[onebir]

Public bug reported:

Note - I'm having this problem on Xubuntu 11.10 - apologies if this is
in the wrong place.

1) Built-in bluetooth
onebir at dell640m:~/Desktop$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
Release:	11.10
onebir at dell640m:~/Desktop$ lsusb | grep -i bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:8103 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 350 Bluetooth
onebir at dell640m:~/Desktop$ hcitool dev
Devices:
	hci1	00:16:41:57:F5:55
onebir at dell640m:~/Desktop$ sudo hcitool scan
[sudo] password for onebir: 
Scanning ...
$

Looks ok, so decided to go through BluetoothSetup in Ubuntu docs (using 11.04 instructions, latest available):
onebir at dell640m:~$ sudo apt-get install bluez python-gobject python-dbus
...snip...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# But what are the newest versions...
onebir at dell640m:~$ apt-cache show bluez python-gobject python-dbus  |egrep "Package|Version"
Package: bluez
Version: 4.96-0ubuntu3
Package: python-dbus
Version: 0.84.0-2
Package: python-gobject
Version: 3.0.0-0ubuntu2
Package: bluez
Version: 4.96-0ubuntu4
Package: python-gobject
Version: 3.0.0-0ubuntu4
# Why two versions of bluez & python-gobject? :s Anyway...
onebir at dell640m:~$ hcitool dev
Devices:
	hci1	00:16:41:57:F5:55
onebir at dell640m:~$ sudo bluez-simple-agent hci1 00:16:41:57:F5:55
Creating device failed: org.bluez.Error.ConnectionAttemptFailed: Page Timeout

2) Plugged in $2 USB dongle to retry.
onebir at dell640m:~$ lsusb
...snip...
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:8103 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 350 Bluetooth
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
onebir at dell640m:~$ hcitool dev
Devices:
	hci0	00:16:41:57:F5:55 # built-in one
	hci1	00:1F:81:00:08:30 # USB one
onebir at dell640m:~$ sudo bluez-simple-agent hci1 00:1F:81:00:08:30
[sudo] password for onebir: 
Creating device failed: org.bluez.Error.ConnectionAttemptFailed: Page Timeout

** Affects: bluez (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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