Bluetooth Adapter Not Pairable! (Kernel 5.14.10-1)

[pythonithon]

Hello, I am new to this forum, so please forgive me if my formatting is incorrect. I recently installed Manjaro and am unable to pair bluetooth due to an unknown issue. This is not a hardware issue as the bluetooth works just fine in windows 10 (dual-boot).

Currently I am running a fully up to date Manjaro KDE Plasma with kernel 5.14.10-1 and 5.10.70-1 (LTS) installed.

When I run sudo systemctl status bluetooth this is what is output:

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-11-16 21:06:23 EST; 15min ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 6106 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 7044)
     Memory: 920.0K
        CPU: 29ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─6106 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Bluetooth management interface 1.21 initialized
Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.40 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.40 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/s>
Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.40 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc>
Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.40 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/s>
Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.40 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc>
Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.40 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/s>
Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.40 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc>
Nov 16 21:06:23 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.40 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/s>
Nov 16 21:07:00 asus-vivobook bluetoothd[6106]: Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03)

So from this I can tell bluetooth is activated, but there is an error. I have tried various commands and installed multiple packages including:

* sudo systemctl restart bluetooth

* sudo systemctl start bluetooth

* rfkill list (bluetooth not hard or soft blocked)

Installed these packages:

* bluez

* bluez-utils

And yet I am still greeted with the same message above. In the Bluetooth Wizard, it says 'Your Bluetooth adapter is not pairable.' Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[pythonithon]

Well I did all steps above, and just installed the latest kernel and sometimes the bluetooth works.

[Yochanan]

Welcome to the forum!

@pythonithon

forgive me if my formatting is incorrect

It’s perfect, thanks for the attention to detail.

@pythonithon

sudo systemctl

FYI, there’s never a need for that (except maybe in a TTY), especially if only querying the status of a service. It will prompt for authentication if necessary.

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[pythonithon]

I believe the update to the newest linux kernel and a couple reboots solved the problem. Thank you.