sudo hciconfig hci0 name 'The-Name-I-Choose' works but it resets to ubuntu-0 on reboot
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308922 Title: There is no way to change the bluetooth system name from the standard GUI Status in “unity-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The built-in bluetooth adapter of my laptop (running 14.04 Trusty Tahr, upgraded from 13.10 Saucy Salamander) appears with the default name "ubuntu-0". I could not find a way to change this name through the GUI tools (eg. System Settings->Bluetooth Settings or System Settings->Details->Overview->Device name)). This seems to be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/989817 and probably caused by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/644198 as my hostname is properly configured. The explanation of the source of the problem in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/989817/comments/12 seems to match the situation and so appears to be correct. The "Device name" in System Settings->Details->Overview is the proper hostname, and it is also greyed-out, so I can't make any modifications there. Unfortunately, short of editing manually /var/lib/bluetooth/[$ADDR]/config or creating /etc/machine-info I couldn't find a way to solve the problem. /etc/bluetooth/main.conf contains the default "Name = %h-%d". I'm not completely sure how this could be solved - either there should be a way to set the name through "System Settings" if it has been stored already in /var/lib/bluetooth/[$ADDR]/config or ubiquity package should replace "ubuntu-0" with the hostname during the post- installation phase, after a proper hostname has been configured. Please, feel free to reassign this bug to one of the other packages if you think that it should be solved there. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140410-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Apr 17 11:23:21 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-control-center InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-19 (119 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: unity-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-03 (13 days ago) usr_lib_unity-control-center: activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu13 deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4 gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1308922/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
