can not disable bluetooth in applet menu

Same here. Not sure if this is a 'bug' or a 'feature' at this point, but it is an extremely important option for me to have since the hardware switch I do have controls both the wireless and the bluetooth adapter together.

I guess you _could_ call it a feature. A bit like having a car with an engine that you can't ever switch off. Not a very useful feature. I have a rule that says that removing something is not a feature. A "design" choice, but not a feature.

I am in the same situation regarding a shared switch for wireless and bluetooth. I tried blueman, which is a very nice utility, but it crashes a few seconds after using it to deactivate bluetooth. However, I set-up an alias to restart bluetooth when I need it.

  alias startblue='sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth'

Maybe this will work for you.

Let us hope this is a bug and not a design decision.

Please have a look also at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/631162/comments/2

Same here. I have a hardware button for disabling bluetooth and wireless, but I would like to be able to turn only bluetooth off.

Same here. In Lucid it was possible. Please re-enable. Thank you :-)

thanks Karl, you may want to have a look at the fallback (by killing the service) to see if it still appears upstream.

After much digging, I've discovered the reason for this is a buggy udev permission for /dev/rfkill which should be mode 0666 it's actually 0600, changing this in theory fixes the bug. although the original problems with visibility are present again.

Thanks for discovering that. So, the udev rule for gnome-bluetooth is actually wrong, and /dev/rfkill doesn't get the ACL's it is supposed to

Fix is uploaded for this now

Thanks, the updated udev rule makes it work again. However, /lib/udev/rules.d/70-acl.rules explicitly tells not to use TAG+="udev-acl" outside of this file...

I think that's just because it's an internal implementation that's likely to change again in the future. However, the same was true also for ENV{ACL_MANAGE}

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-bluetooth - 2.31.90-0ubuntu2

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gnome-bluetooth (2.31.90-0ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * Fix LP: #629452 - can not disable bluetooth in applet menu, because no
    ACL's were being set on /dev/rfkill. Fix this by setting
    TAGS+="udev-acl" on this device. Thanks to Karl Lattimer for the
    initial investigation
    - update debian/61-gnome-bluetooth-rfkill.rules
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:28:06 +0100

Don't know how to reopen this bug.
But i did have this option in maverick - but since a week its gone. The optional "disable bluetooth" is gone in the applet and i can't switch it off anymore.
Please reopen it as its there again.