Running the bluetooth daemons on machines without the hardware has little point. We should just be starting them when hardware is attached (either as a hal callout or a udev rule)
There will be singleton addons in HAL 0.5.10 (Out in 2-3 months) to handle this - am working with Marcel and other Bluez developers. The only change, for this, will be replacing the initscript with a HAL fdi file.... (there are other Bluez/HAL integration bits that will benefit from this too (Bluez can claim HAL interfaces) but that is outside the scope of this bug.)
David, is there an open bug for that particular HAL feature? It would also be useful for authentication hardware, so that they could modify the PAM configuration, and start up helper services on-demand/when plugged in.
(In reply to comment #2) > David, is there an open bug for that particular HAL feature? It would also be > useful for authentication hardware, so that they could modify the PAM > configuration, and start up helper services on-demand/when plugged in. It's mentioned here http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=doc/TODO and is on track for 0.5.10. HTH.
Will we have this in time for Fedora 8?
Will it be possible to disable this behaviour? Just because bluetooth hardware is available it doesn't mean that I always want to run the servers.
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Still the case, still should be fixed
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
We use dbus activation to start up hcid in rawhide. It probably breaks quite a few things. Please test and file bugs.
Clean F15 install, no bluetooth hardware, and the bluetooth service starts automatically during boot. Should I file a different bug?