gnome-bluetooth confused about on/off state of bluetooth

my bluetooth mouse will not work either.

The bug report is not that useful because you're talking about the daemon and the applet which are two different things.
For bug/problem with the applet and all the UI tools, report against gnome-bluetooth which evidences attachded (like crash report) please.

For this particular bug, was bluetoothd (I speaking about the deamon) broken the same way in previous versions in karmic too?
Could you also stop the deamon and launch it manually with debug switch and upload the output here?
Did you try to perform a scan in command line (with hcitool)?

ah, and when you what to report a bug, please use ubuntu-bug command tool because it can provide useful information to us.

Thanks a lot.

I have both more info and more success meanwhile...

Right after booting, if I try to send a file to my mobile phone, that will fail. If I de- and then reenable bluetooth using the functionality in the applet, it works.

Sometimes, the applet seems to be confused about whether bluetooth is on or off and will show: "Bluetooth: unknown" in the menu.

In short, it's probably an issue with the killswitch part of the applet.

This is on a Thinkpad T60 with an internal USB Broadcom Bluetooth adapter.

I just saw that 2.27.9 has the following in the NEWS file:

- Port to using new rfkill API in Linux kernel 2.6.31

Maybe that will help with this problem?

Yep, now it you modify the bluetooth rfill with rfkill the status of the bluetooth change immediatly.
I know the rfkill support for thinkpad t60 was not great (I own one) but in 2.27.9 it is working better.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-bluetooth - 2.27.90-0ubuntu1

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gnome-bluetooth (2.27.90-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * upstream release 2.27.90 (LP: #427665)
  * addressing MIR comments (LP: #409848)

  [ Loïc Minier <email address hidden> ]
  * Bump libdbus-glib-1-dev bdep to >= 0.74 to match configure.
  * Pass --disable-icon-update to configure by default as icon caches will be
    created by default if libgtk2.0-bin is present and might be shipped in the
    package.
  * Dont include autotools.mk as it's already included by gnome.mk.
  * Drop libgeoclue-dev bdep as it doesn't seem to be needed for the geoclue
    plugin.

  [ Alexander Sack <email address hidden> ]
  * debian/control: add geoclue to gnome-bluetooth Suggests
  * debian/copyright: clarify copyright for shipped packages
  * debian/rules: drop removal of -Bsymbolic-functions link flag; upstream
    fixed the way libcommon.la is linked into the various binaries
  * debian/control: add Vcs-Bzr info to ~ubuntu-desktop packaging branch

  [ Baptiste Mille-Mathias <email address hidden> ]
  * Fix rkill status (LP: #407962)

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:08:01 +0200

Latest upgrades seem to have broken it again :(

Hi, this is Ubuntu 12.10.

I have NEVER seen the bluetooth applet properly indicate that the radio was turned off in hardware, through
several versions of Ubuntu, on any of several machines on which I use Bluetooth.

PLEASE FIX THIS: it would be so cool to have a nice clear visual indication that Bluetooth *should* be working.

A moment ago, I turned off the hardware radios, and ran
     rfkill list
to see that the radios were indeed off.

The Bluetooth applet merrily informed me that bluetooth was working and the machine was visible.
My otheer devices could no longer see it though.

ALSO I would propose to make a graphical distinction between being off in hardware and in software:
If it's off in harware, put a cross over or line through the icon.