OK, yes, that mv_conffile fuckup is the cause of this problem. Moving it back *and* restarting dbus and bluetooth daemons fixed it.
I didn't realize at first that hcitool talked to the daemon; its manpage gave me the impression that it talked directly to the devices; that the bluetooth daemon was merely some higher-level thing. It might be useful to mention in the manpages that bluetoothd *needs* a system dbus to do anything at all, and likewise hcitool *needs* bluetoothd. It might also be useful for "hcitool scan" to report something like along the lines of "I can't see bluetoothd" rather than "no devices found". # logread -f & [1] 2717 # /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart Stopping bluetooth: /usr/sbin/bluetoothd. Starting bluetooth: bluetoothd. # Sep 27 19:02:21 dali daemon.info bluetoothd[2729]: Bluetooth daemon 4.96 Sep 27 19:02:21 dali daemon.err bluetoothd[2729]: Unable to get on D-Bus # /etc/init.d/dbus start system message bus already started; not starting.. # /etc/init.d/dbus restart Stopping system message bus: dbus. Starting system message bus: dbus. # mv /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf.dpkg-remove /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf # Sep 27 19:02:54 dali daemon.notice dbus[2746]: [system] Reloaded configuration /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart Stopping bluetooth: /usr/sbin/bluetoothd. Starting bluetooth: bluetoothd. # Sep 27 19:03:03 dali daemon.info bluetoothd[2763]: Bluetooth daemon 4.96 Sep 27 19:03:03 dali daemon.info bluetoothd[2763]: Starting SDP server Sep 27 19:03:03 dali daemon.err bluetoothd[2763]: D-Bus failed to register org.bluez.Proximity interface Sep 27 19:03:03 dali user.info kernel: [ 1830.878025] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 Sep 27 19:03:03 dali user.info kernel: [ 1830.878038] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast Sep 27 19:03:03 dali daemon.info bluetoothd[2763]: Listening for HCI events on hci0 Sep 27 19:03:03 dali user.info kernel: [ 1830.900768] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6 Sep 27 19:03:03 dali user.info kernel: [ 1830.900780] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized Sep 27 19:03:03 dali daemon.info bluetoothd[2763]: HCI dev 0 up Sep 27 19:03:03 dali daemon.info bluetoothd[2763]: Adapter /org/bluez/2763/hci0 has been enabled # hcitool scan Scanning ... # Sep 27 19:03:48 dali user.info kernel: [ 1875.994795] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2 Sep 27 19:03:48 dali user.info kernel: [ 1876.009182] input: Apple Wireless Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/input12 Sep 27 19:03:48 dali user.info kernel: [ 1876.009901] apple 0005:05AC:0239.0001: input,hidraw0: BLUETOOTH HID v0.50 Keyboard [Apple Wireless Keyboard] on 1C:4B:D6:05:DE:97 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
