This issue seems to not be fixed entirely, after all. Yesterday, the earbuds would pair but not connect when I powered them on. I had to connect them manually each time, using either bluetoothctl or blueman-manager. At one point they disconnected, and subsequent attempts to reconnect them resulted in a "Device or resource busy" error in syslog. I had to remove them and go through the pairing and connection process again to fix it.
So, there's definitely still a problem here, although they do work most of the time, which is better than where I started. On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 5:52 PM deloptes <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 01:21:03PM -0400, David Parker wrote: > >> Ok, I think I may have solved the connectivity issue. Some additional > >> Googling revealed that GDM starts an instance of PulseAudio, and that > >> conflicts with the PulseAudio server used by the Bluetooth device. The > >> steps to stop GDM from starting PulseAudio can be found online, and I've > >> adapted them for Buster here: > >> > >> (as root): > >> echo "autospawn = no" >> /var/lib/gdm3/.config/pulse/client.conf > >> echo "daemon-binary = /bin/true" >> > >> /var/lib/gdm3/.config/pulse/client.conf su - Debian-gdm -c "mkdir -p > >> /var/lib/gdm3/.config/systemd/user" su - Debian-gdm -c "ln -s /dev/null > >> /var/lib/gdm/.config/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket" > >> > > > > Ah -- that old chestnut! I had that problem back in the day (wheezy or > > stretch, I don't remember which) with a pair of high-end bluetooth > > headphones. > > > > I recently fresh-installed Buster, I've used Bluetooth with a speaker > > but not with my headphones without problems, but I just checked and I > > _do_ have 2 instances of pulseaudio running, one as my regular user and > > one as Debian-<something>. Isn't that a bug in Debian's setup? Is there > > some reason one would want things that way? > > > > Mark > > I just check, I do not use gdm - don't have it installed, but I also have > two processes. I found this and many other entries dedicated to the topic > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/11/msg01119.html > > However I do not have any issues with audio - very strange - also the date > of the thread. > > regards > > > -- Dave Parker '11 Database & Systems Administrator Utica College Integrated Information Technology Services (315) 792-3229 Registered Linux User #408177
