Bug 566670 - Bluetooth loses mouse randomly after hibernate/resume
Summary: Bluetooth loses mouse randomly after hibernate/resume
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bluez
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-19 10:53 UTC by Johan Vromans
Modified: 2010-06-28 20:28 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 15:41:00 UTC
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Description Johan Vromans 2010-02-19 10:53:55 UTC
Description of problem:

Toshiba Sattellite A200-237 notebook, bluetooth mouse. Gnome.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 11 with all updates as of to date.

The problem: After hibernate/resume, the mouse suddenly stops working after a while. This seems independent on what is going on, I have had the mouse stopping while I was using is, but also after a period of inactivity.

When I chvt to the console most of the times the mouse there works. chvt back again to X makes the mouse functional again for a while.

There are no messages written in the system logs when this happens. As far as the mouse is concerned it is connected and the light of the bluetooth dongle flickers while moving the mouse, indicating a working connection.

Disconnecting and reconnecting does not help, removing the BT dongle and inserting it again does not help either. De mouse gets connected (according to the system log messages) but remains non-functional until I chvt away and back again.

Having to chvt all of the time quickly becomes very annoying.

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2010-02-19 11:35:43 UTC
If you have to chvt, my guess is that the mouse might be getting disconnected.

You should check the Xorg logs for the mouse appearing/disappearing (though that would probably appear in /var/log/messages anyway), and check the mouse's batteries.

If all that fails to show anything in particular, try using hcidump to see what traffic is happening on the bluetooth side.

Comment 2 Johan Vromans 2010-02-20 12:31:10 UTC
After resume, hcidump starts normally but shows no traffic at all.
When I disconnect the mouse and reconnects (using the Gnome applet) hcidump shows the protocol messages but still no traffic.
Then I disconnect the BT dongle and reconnect it. Now I can reconnect the mouse and hcidump (after having been restarted) shows a lot of traffic when moving the mouse. However, I still do not have a mouse in X.
Changing vt to 1 and back to 7 makes the mouse working in X.

After a long while of inactivity the mouse is lost again. hcidump shows a lot of traffic but the mouse is not available in X. Changing vt makes the mouse working again.

All this time Xorg.0.log does not show any message whatsoever (I have a permanent taif -f running).

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-04-28 11:52:39 UTC
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Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 15:41:00 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 5 Johan Vromans 2010-06-28 20:28:30 UTC
This problem still exists in F13.


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