Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 156869
DISPLAY error msg anytime bluepin is run
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:05 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-3 Description of problem: Symptom: cell phone could not connect to Thinkpad T42p over Bluetooth I started breaking down the steps for connecting a Bluetooth device to the Thinkpad and found out that neither the pin_helper nor dbus_pin_helper were working to give hcid a PIN when my cellphone was trying to connect. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bluez-utils-2.15-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1) Use Fn+F5 to enable Thinkpad Bluetooth device 2) Run "hciconfig hci0 up" 3) Start bluetooth service ("service bluetooth start") 4) Test out /usr/bin/bluepin to see what it will give hcid upon execution since /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf has "security user" enable by default. Actual Results: $ bluepin Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/bluepin", line 39, in ? import gtk File "/usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ? RuntimeError: could not open display Expected Results: Popup dialog for me to enter a PIN, followed by "PIN:"+ my PIN on stdout. Additional info: Workaround: 1) Store PIN in /etc/bluetooth/pin 2) Change /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf to use "security auto"
The above error message is normal if you call bluepin from the commandline as normal user, bluepin has to be called by root with 2 arguments: First is "dir" and second bluetooth device address. With bluez-utils-2.15-7 at least pin_helper works, on incoming/outgoing connections I'm asked for a pin, so I think this one should be closed as "not a bug". dbus_pin_helper still does not work (see #160676).