Hello. The other day I made use of the sudo eopkg rmo command. There was one orphan package listed named gnome-bluetooth-1-common 3.34.5-3-1-x86_64 and went ahead to remove it. However, the GUI bluetooth on/off switch is no longer working properly. The button will switch to the 'on' position, remains grey and after a few minutes turns back to the 'off' position. In that time frame, it will not list discoverable items.

The Wi-Fi switch still works. It turns blue upon switching to the 'on' position and displays available network.

In an attempt to revive bluetooth, I looked back in sudo eopkg hs, found what had been removed (the orphan package above) and (re)installed the exact same.

Operation #11: install
Date: 2024-02-28 00:01

    * gnome-bluetooth-1-common 3.34.5-3-1-x86_64 is installed.

Operation #10: remove
Date: 2024-02-27 23:52

    * gnome-bluetooth-1-common 3.34.5-3-1-x86_64 is removed.

Rebooted the PC, but the switch remains inactive. In a hopeless attempt I installed gnome-bluetooth 42.7-34-1-x86_64 but realize that installing more than originally is/was needed to have working bluetooth is not (always) a solution.

I would like to solve the issue and need some guidance as to where to start looking.

  • Staudey replied to this.

  • Try uninstall sudo eopkg rm gnome-bluetooth gnome-bluetooth-1-common
    After the reboot check systemctl status bluetooth

    Show: eopkg li | grep blue

    x@x ~ $ eopkg li | grep blue
bluez                                       - Official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack.
gnome-bluetooth                             - The GNOME Bluetooth Subsystem
gnome-bluetooth-1                           - The GNOME Bluetooth Subsystem providing gnome-bluetooth-1.0
gnome-bluetooth-1-common                    - Common BlueTooth components between gnome-bluetooth versions

    Try uninstall sudo eopkg rm gnome-bluetooth gnome-bluetooth-1-common
    After the reboot check systemctl status bluetooth

    4 days later

    @pomon After reboot, bluetooth seems to be working again. How come though that it now works when it didn't when removed as an orphaned package?

    x@x ~ $ systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; disabled; prese>
    Drop-In: /usr/lib64/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2024-03-11 19:52:03 PDT; 48s ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 757 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 37413)
     Memory: 2.2M
        CPU: 21ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─757 /usr/lib64/bluez/bluetooth/bluetoothd

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● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib64/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2024-03-11 19:52:03 PDT; 48s ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 757 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 37413)
     Memory: 2.2M
        CPU: 21ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─757 /usr/lib64/bluez/bluetooth/bluetoothd

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