Yes, very depressing. This is why people use Macs. But there is no way I am going to use a Mac's OS and this is free and open software so I would like to get to the bottom of this. I just read through this entire issue and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638117#c9 and it appears this is now a true upstream with gnome-bluetooth. It also appears to be related to those with an actual hardware wireless radio or bluetooth kill switch. This may explain why it works for certain people.
This is present in Ubuntu 14.04 with bluez 4.101-0ubuntu13 and gnome- bluetooth 3.8.2.1-0ubuntu4 and not sure it matters but I also have indicator-bluetooth 0.0.6+14.04.20140207-0ubuntu2. I got this with a dpkg-query -l "*blue*" in case anyone else is wondering what versions they are running. ps. Possible duplicate here -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /acpi-support/+bug/280811 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bluez in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446657 Title: Bluetooth's on/off status doesn't update from the SetProperty D-Bus method that bluetoothd sends Status in GNOME Bluetooth: New Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project: New Status in “bluez” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “bluez” package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth Gnome's bluetooth applet should get a bluetooth device's on/off status through dbus from SetProperty setting sent by bluetoothd. This information was given in http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/4302 There is a setting controlling this feature: RememberPowered=true in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf Questions: Is the dbus message is even sent? If it is sent, why gnome-bluetooth doesn't do anything for it? Does bluez's SetProperty actually find the last (if even saved) bluetooth status? ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Oct 8 20:54:15 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: wl Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-bluetooth/+bug/446657/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
