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For about two days now, my bluetooth has not been functional. The bluetooth icon is not present on the top panel. The bluetooth window is completely frozen as can be seen in this picture:

Bluetooth Window

The output for bluetoothd -d -n is:

bluetoothd[3390]: Bluetooth daemon 4.98
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() parsing main.conf
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() discovto=0
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() pairto=0
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() pageto=8192
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() auto_to=60
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() name=%h-%d
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() class=0x000100
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() discov_interval=30
bluetoothd[3390]: src/main.c:parse_config() Key file does not have key 'DeviceID'

The output for start bluetooth is:

start: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.343" (uid=1000 pid=19042 comm="start bluetooth ") interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job" member="Start" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart" (uid=0 pid=1 comm="/sbin/init")

My Ubuntu version is 12.04. Any idea as to how this can be sorted?

EDIT

Patebin link containing the contents of /var/log/dmesg: link

EDIT #2

hcitool dev:

Devices:
    hci0    74:E5:43:36:65:21

cat /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf: paste bin link

ps aux| grep bluetooth:

root      1065  0.0  0.0   4740  2028 ?        Ss   15:33   0:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
dorsatum  2392  0.0  0.2 142772 10956 ?        Sl   15:33   0:00 bluetooth-applet
root     20960  0.0  0.2  76268 10780 ?        Sl   22:08   0:00 bluetooth-applet
dorsatum 21203  0.0  0.0   4388   832 pts/0    S+   22:13   0:00 grep --color=auto bluetooth
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You may want to try loading the btusb module before starting the daemon:

sudo modprobe btusb

To make it happen on reboots put this into /etc/modules:

btusb

The above fixed my case, which was: sudo service bluetooth start did not start the daemon and dmesg showed

[   72.468338] init: bluetooth main process (4028) terminated with status 1
[   72.468401] init: bluetooth respawning too fast, stopped

because /usr/sbin/bluetoothd -n -d failed with

bluetoothd[4054]: opening L2CAP socket: Address family not supported by protocol
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Use sudo service bluetooth restart

I had similar outputs and found an answer in this thread. Everything is back to normal for me now.

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  • thank you for your answer, but the bluetooth service, despite the restart is not working, the screen for the service is frozen as it was before and there is no bluetooth icon on the top panel. any ideas?
    – Projjol
    Jul 24, 2013 at 5:10
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From the dmesg output: It shows that your bluetooth is initialized and detected.
Are you using laptop with, some special keys for BLUETOOTH: eg: fn+f3 ??
If anything like that is present,

 make sure it is ON.

Sometimes this may be the case.

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  • my laptop DOES have the fn+f3 combo for WiFi and bluetooth, and it is switched on, but somehow that doesn't change my bluetooth's erratic behavior.
    – Projjol
    Sep 12, 2013 at 17:03
  • my Laptop has the same combo feature.... How to you know tht it is switched ON. Is there any indicator,which displays that?? Sep 12, 2013 at 18:54
  • yep, there's this orange led which signals that the bluetooth service is switched on.
    – Projjol
    Sep 13, 2013 at 1:46
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    that orange LED is for both wifi and bluetooth i guess ...!!! See it has happened to me. Sep 13, 2013 at 3:36
  • indeed, it's for both the services!
    – Projjol
    Sep 13, 2013 at 9:56
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I was running unbuntu in an Oracle VM VirtualBox, and after 30 minutes of trying to figure out why the dongle wasn't showing up, I went to "Devices" under the VM VirtualBox parent menu selected "USB" and then my specific Dongle in my case it was "Cambridge Silicon Radio, Lg Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) [8891]". After that my Bluetooth dongle showed BT devices in my unbuntu VM

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