• From: Kapolei, Hawaii
  • Registered: 2012-02-03
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Topic: Bluetooth can't send files (but CAN receive them)?

Installed the latest #! on my little Netbook...

Acer AO532h
Atom N450 (1.66GHz)
2GB RAM
Internal Bluetooth (Broadcom BCM2046)

Most of the Bluetooth stuff was already installed, so I added bluetooth-applet to my startup and it all seemed to be working. I was able to find and pair my phone no problem, but could not send or receive files.

So I purged all the Bluetooth stuff, did an apt-get autoremove to clean up the loose ends, and reinstalled the following.

bluetooth (and all dependencies)
gnome-bluetooth
blueman

And now I can send files from my phone to the computer. But when I try to go the other direction, the computer starts sending the file, then Bluetooth disconnects and the phone says receive file failed. The computer does not detect this error (or the fact that it disconnected) and keeps sending the file, which, of course is not working now (progress is stalled) and I have to hit Cancel.

Can't figure out why it's working from the phone to the computer, and not the other way around. I did a search of the forum and on google, but what I found is people who had the opposite problem (couldn't send TO the computer).

I can go both ways under Windows 7, so I know the BT adapter works.

Anyone got any ideas... I'm stumped at this point?


EDIT: I just tried connecting to my Linux desktop running Mint-10 (Gnome/Nautilus), and I can send files from the Netbook to the desktop. EDIT-2: Scratch that. It was working, and now it's not. sad This is really frustrating. I hate this intermittent crap.

I suspect this has something to do with the Receive Files set-up that errors out. That is usually solved by installing gnome-bluetooth, but I installed that and it still doesn't work.

Is there anything else I need to install to #! to get BT file sharing working?

Thanks, Tim

Last edited by Tuber (2012-02-03 14:51:08)

  • ethrg
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Re: Bluetooth can't send files (but CAN receive them)?

Before just wantonly installing stuff (although I totally recommend that if it works! also wantons!) it's worth the time to do a bit of digging to find out just what the problem is. Check the output of dmesg to get an idea what's going on when the transfer fails, and make sure you don't have any sort of access restrictions in place on your phone. I once spent twenty minutes on the line to AT&T tryin' to my Bluetooth up before I remembered I was MAC filtering all incoming connections. Also make sure you haven't got Bluetooth switched off in BIOS, my Dell netbook can actually bring up the Bluetooth interface in #! even when it's switched off in BIOS , but wont allow any connections (turned out to be a bug that went away after I updated BIOS).

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  • From: Kapolei, Hawaii
  • Registered: 2012-02-03
  • Posts: 46

Re: Bluetooth can't send files (but CAN receive them)?

ethrg wrote:

...Check the output of dmesg to get an idea what's going on when the transfer fails

Hmmm... segfault (see below).


ethrg wrote:

...and make sure you don't have any sort of access restrictions in place on your phone. I once spent twenty minutes on the line to AT&T tryin' to my Bluetooth up before I remembered I was MAC filtering all incoming connections.

No restrictions. No filtering. Like I said, I can send/receive from the Netbook in Windows-7, and I also have no trouble with my phone and my desktop running Mint-10.


ethrg wrote:

...Also make sure you haven't got Bluetooth switched off in BIOS, my Dell netbook can actually bring up the Bluetooth interface in #! even when it's switched off in BIOS , but wont allow any connections (turned out to be a bug that went away after I updated BIOS).

LOL! Sounds like a Dell. They build some freaky machines!

On the up side, I did figure out how to solve the file sharing not installed issue.

sudo apt-get install gnome-user-share

Or just search for that in Synaptic...

Now I just have to figure out what to do about this segfault. sad

[ 6358.124145] obex-client[2317]: segfault at 38 ip b7610deb sp bfb648e0 error 6 in libopenobex.so.1.5.0[b760e000+8000]

sad

EDIT: Tried re-installing libopenobex 1.5.2, no joy. sad

[ 225.686560] obex-client[2317]: segfault at 38 ip b772edeb sp bfa7daa0 error 6 in libopenobex.so.1.5.0[b772c000+80187100]

Any ideas on the segfault?

Last edited by Tuber (2012-02-03 19:57:26)

  • From: Kapolei, Hawaii
  • Registered: 2012-02-03
  • Posts: 46

Re: Bluetooth can't send files (but CAN receive them)?

Also checked the md5sums of the libopenobex files:

tim@acer-crunchbang:/$ md5sum -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/libopenobex1.md5sums
usr/lib/libopenobex.so.1.5.0: OK
usr/share/doc/libopenobex1/changelog.Debian.gz: OK
usr/share/doc/libopenobex1/copyright: OK
usr/share/doc/libopenobex1/changelog.gz: OK

No errors...