blueman-applet crashed with dbus.exceptions.DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Failed to activate service 'org.bluez': timed out

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1553609

Easily replicated with a fresh AMD64 Xubuntu install of 2016-03-17 on VirtualBox. No WiFi on this installation, just a normal NIC.

Failure occurs consistently on i386 machine at restart. No WiFi on this machine.

Just had this for the first time. I have WiFi, the only difference is my laptop HD died yesterday!

Affects Ubuntu Mate ppc too.

Occurred in both my Ubuntu Studio 16.04 fresh amd64 installs (laptop VM and desktop VM)

WIFI switch on , Dell Latitude E6410; this happens using the i386 or amd64 ISO i tested both , using ubuntu studio 16.04 LTS amd64

I'm having this same bug whenever I reboot. The hardware is a PowerEdge T110 Tower Server with wired Ethernet. It has no WiFi nor Bluetooth. I'm running MATE version.

Turning off the Bluetooth Manager from loading in the Startup Applications Preferences, stops the error, as is to be expected.

Since it is the Bluetooth manager and many of configurations with this problem are older hardware that predate Bluetooth or in my case a server, I thought it might simply be a problem that there were no Bluetooth devices.

Whenever I plug in a USB Bluetooth dongle, and the error no longer happens.

From the outside without looking at the code, it appears that this might be as simple as the BlueMan app needs to exit gracefully without raising an error condition when there are no Bluetooth devices. When there are no devices, the Bluetooth drivers are not loaded, so the Bluetooth Manager fails to find them.

It may appear as a WiFi error, since the Bluetooth BNEP drivers for Ethernet Emulation over are not available.

Hope this might help. If at all possible, this really should be fixed before the release next month, otherwise novice users will worry that it is something serious.

Thank you for your hard work supporting Ubuntu,
Greg

Definitely affects MATE. Usually happens shortly after I login.

I consistently (three consecutive restarts) got the error on a fresh install of xubuntu-16.04-beta2-desktop-amd64 on an Alienware m11x R2. After reading these comments, I enabled Bluetooth in the BIOS an no longer get the error.

I have been getting this same blueman-applet crashed error on desktop class hardware with no Bluetooth onboard.

Is there some way to disable blueman-applet from even running on systems which have no Bluetooth in the first place?

Crash after accessing desktop on liveCD, tried pushing the install anyway, crashes again after partition selection. Saying : The creation of swap space in partition #5 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed.

AMD64 version of Beta 2 Xubuntu installer tried Daily too, same thing, to this day. Now I'm just gonna install 14.04 instead. Cheers

SO close to release and the installer still doesn't work, that's smart.

I have removed both wifi and bluetooth hardware from my acer aspire one kav60, so far its just annoying, didnt try to install yet.