Hi all

I recently purchased a new laptop. Installed Solus Plasma, updated, been using it for about a week now. Everything is running smoothly. The only issue I seem to be having is my bluetooth is not working at all.

Things to note

  • If the solution requires a purchase or modifying hardware in some way, I'm not interested
  • I can live without bluetooth on my laptop, it won't be the end of the world for me if no solution is found

Bluetooth System Tray Entry Set to Always Shown (Not Visible)

Bluetooth Settings (Blank)

I've tried to troubleshoot it myself but I just keep finding myself meeting a dead end. If anyone has any suggestions, or a solution, I'd appreciate your help.

Show:

inxi -E
systemctl status bluetooth.service
rfkill list all
eopkg li | grep blue

    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2022-05-08 18:27:18 AEST; 15min ago

    You must activate the service. Mayby: sudo systemctl start bluetooth

      pomon

      Just tried it. Results:

      Job for bluetooth.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
      See "systemctl status bluetooth.service" and "journalctl -xeu bluetooth.service" for details.

        Can you post the output of sudo journalctl -xeu bluetooth.service

          Found on the web: sudo systemctl reload dbus and them sudo systemctl start bluetooth

            pomon
            Tried both commands. The first one gave no errors. The second gave me the same error as before

            Job for bluetooth.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status bluetooth.service" and "journalctl -xeu bluetooth.service" for details.

            Thanks to both you @pomon & @Staudey for your help. I appreciate your time and effort!

            I sense a solution won't be found. Again, thank you both for your help. I'll survive 😆

                xjdwc when you make moves like that always good to reboot. at least try it before you write the whole thing off. 2 cents

                    xjdwc I havent kept up on it think some ppl where having issues with bluez
                    check make sure its installed (from software center) and some ppl where going back to the previous version
                    and having it work.
                    (Dunno just info)

                        brent when you make moves like that always good to reboot. at least try it before you write the whole thing off. 2 cents

                        Yeah I start to get pessimistic real fast haha. But I did reboot after each action, but no success.

                        Axios I havent kept up on it think some ppl where having issues with bluez
                        check make sure its installed (from software center) and some ppl where going back to the previous version
                        and having it work.
                        (Dunno just info)

                        Thanks, It seems it is related to bluez. I just have no Idea. This is all way above my head.

                        pomon Well, I found it. It won't hurt to try

                        You are a machine! Thanks for this, at first I didn't no what I was looking at, then I saw the command to enter.

                        MAJOR UPDATE** I followed the instructions given in the link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009987

                        Steps I took

                        • Opened Konsole
                        • Entered command:
                          • sudo install -m 700 -d /var/lib/bluetooth
                        • Restarted Bluetooth? I'm not sure if I did it right:
                          • sudo systemctl restart bluetooth.service
                        • Rebooted Laptop

                        After Reboot these are the noted changes

                        • Visible Bluetooth System Tray Entry


                        • Bluetooth Settings No longer Blank (Clicking Enable Does nothing)

                        Output of: sudo systemctl status bluetooth.service

                        Output of: sudo journalctl -xeu bluetooth.service

                        Definitely surprised from the progress/results. Didn't expect any success at all. I'm now optimistic.
                        Unfortunately though, still no bluetooth. Any Ideas?

                        Thank you all for your help with this. You are all awesome 😃

                              Ok. Show lsmod | grep bt and systemctl status bluetooth.target
                              Proposal. Install kernel LTS, switch to it and see if it is BT sudo eopkg it linux-lts

                                pomon
                                Output of: lsmod |grep bt

                                Output of: sudo systemctl status bluetooth.target

                                I'll install kernal LTS and get back to you about the results

                                  Some suggest

                                  sudo modprobe -r btusb
sudo modprobe btusb
                                    10 days later

                                    pomon Some suggest
                                    sudo modprobe -r btusb
                                    sudo modprobe btusb

                                    Still no success. Thanks for all your suggestions. Hopefully a future update magically fixes it.

                                      a year later