When I open the bluetooth preferences the turn on bluetooth button is enabled. Clicking on it grays out the button, but nothing happens. Used to work on Ubuntu 10.09
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: bluetooth 4.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 16 21:12:18 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InterestingModules: sco bnep l2cap btusb bluetooth
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite L655
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-10-generic root=UUID=5a61dea9-89bd-4e65-a733-1b7001e82612 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (109 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/21/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: 1.50
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Portable PC
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Base Board Version
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacturer
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvr1.50:bd06/21/2010:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteL655:pvrPSK1GE-00F006HU:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnChassisManufacturer:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: Satellite L655
dmi.product.version: PSK1GE-00F006HU
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
DOWN
RX bytes:34 acl:0 sco:0 events:3 errors:0
TX bytes:12 acl:0 sco:0 commands:4 errors:0
I managed to fix the problem. The cause was that there was only a K (kill) entry in the /etc/rc.2 directory but no start entry. This has happened on two of my machines and both was fixed by the same commands :
update-rc.d -f bluetooth remove
update-rc.d -f bluetooth defaults