Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 483419
bluetooth-wizard fails to connect properly to Bluetooth mouse
Last modified: 2014-06-16 18:25:19 EDT
Description of problem: I just bought a Bluetooth mouse (Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000). Brought it home and tried to set it up the Official Way - via bluetooth-wizard, launched from the panel Bluetooth applet. It discovered it fine, and when I selected it from the list, it went on to the next screen and claimed to have completed successfully. However, the mouse wasn't working at all. Looking in /var/log/messages, I saw: bluetoothd[2065]: connect(): Connection refused (111) I tried several times to delete the pairing and re-pair the device; every time, that message would show up in /var/log/messages, and the mouse wouldn't work. 'hcitool con' and 'hidd --show' both reported no active connections. After a while I looked for a workaround, and found this old guide: http://www.boplicity.net/confluence/display/Linux/Bluetooth+Mouse+with+Fedora following that works perfectly. I just ran hidd --server --search as root, and it worked - it completed successfully and the mouse began to work immediately. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.8-11.fc10 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set mouse to pairing mode 2. Attempt to pair mouse 3. Try to use mouse, and examine /var/log/messages Actual results: Mouse no worky Expected results: Mouse worky! Additional info:
This should be fixed by setting the mouse to be trusted in the preferences. Select the mouse in the paired devices, and select "trust". In recent versions, bluez-gnome's wizard will do it automatically.
I am experiencing the same issue with the same brand and model of mouse as the reporter. I worked around similarly by running as root 'hidd --connect XX'. My bluetooth-properties showed the device as trusted and I also tried several cycles of 'Distrust/Trust', to no avail.
Yeah, I tried setting it to be trusted as well (sorry I didn't notice your followup earlier, Bastien).
I'll test this with F11 at some point when I update my laptop. But, uh, do either of you know how to clear whatever voodoo makes it work after doing hidd, so I know whether or not GNOME is handling it correctly? Right now, the mouse just works, all the time, through mouse power cycles, laptop power cycles, suspend, resume, anything - this is obviously good for me, but it's tricky for testing purposes :)
Just stop the running hidd. If setting the device as trusted doesn't work, then you can try connecting to the mouse using the mouse menu item in the applet.
That's the problem - there isn't a running hidd. Hence my description of it as 'voodoo'. I can't actually figure out what the hell bit of running code makes the mouse work, hence I can't stop it..."ps aux | grep hid" just returns nothing. I'll try and find a bit of time to dump an entire running process list out to a text file and go through it with a fine tooth comb at some point, but this isn't at the top of my priority list right now :\ leaving it in needinfo is fine, i'll set it back to that after posting this comment.
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