[Bug 1758569] [NEW] can't switch to bluetooth speakers

[david braun]

Public bug reported:

I'm not really sure this problem is with bluez, pulseaudio or firefox.
The main symptom is that Firefox refuses to send audio to my AD2P
compliant bluetooth speakers. I can select the speakers with the gnome-
control-center for bluetooth and play the test sounds (even while FF is
playing sound through the computer (DELL N7010 laptop) speakers. Even
VLC has the same problem so I suspect this is a system problem and not
an application problem.

Note - I installed pavucontrol and was able to switch the audio of a
playing youtube to the bluetooth speakers.

now for your recommended info
lsb_release says
    Ubuntu 17.10
Firefox is Version 59.0.1
dpkg -l | grep -i blue  says
    ii  bluez                           5.46-0ubuntu3          amd64 Bluetooth tools and daemons
    ii  bluez-cups                      5.46-0ubuntu3          amd64 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS
    ii  bluez-obexd                     5.46-0ubuntu3          amd64 bluez obex daemon
    ii  bluez-tools                     0.2.0~20140808-5build1 amd64 Set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices for linux
    ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0:amd64 3.26.1-1               amd64 Introspection data for GnomeBluetooth
    ii  gnome-bluetooth                 3.26.1-1               amd64 GNOME Bluetooth tools
    ii  libbluetooth3:amd64             5.46-0ubuntu3          amd64 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
    ii  libgnome-bluetooth13:amd64      3.26.1-1               amd64 GNOME Bluetooth tools - support library
    ii  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth     1:10.0-2ubuntu3.1      amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: bluez 5.46-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-37.42-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Mar 24 14:10:02 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-19 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron N7010
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-37-generic root=UUID=94a7c54a-20a6-4bd0-905c-918de9b5ff61 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/31/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 08VFX1
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A11
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A11
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd03/31/2011:svnDellInc.:pnInspironN7010:pvrA11:rvnDellInc.:rn08VFX1:rvrA11:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA11:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron N7010
dmi.product.version: A11
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
hciconfig:
 hci0:	Type: Primary  Bus: USB
 	BD Address: C0:CB:38:C2:18:51  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
 	UP RUNNING INQUIRY 
 	RX bytes:234685 acl:43 sco:0 events:33407 errors:0
 	TX bytes:56372584 acl:66043 sco:0 commands:212 errors:0

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


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug artful wayland-session

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