Bluetooth.service disabled (according to systemd)

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My Bluetooth isn’t working. It was working before, (AFAIK). After some messing about, I’ve figured out that the problem is maybe with systemd.

Here’s some info:

$ systemctl status bluetooth
○ bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)

Feb 14 17:45:22 matrix-desktop systemd[1]: Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).
Feb 14 17:45:54 matrix-desktop systemd[1]: Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).
Feb 14 17:50:01 matrix-desktop systemd[1]: Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).
Feb 14 17:53:25 matrix-desktop systemd[1]: Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).
Feb 14 17:54:48 matrix-desktop systemd[1]: Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).

As you can see, it says “inactive”, which it’s not supposed to say, as far as I know.
I don’t know which bluetooth card I have, but I’m willing to find out if it’s required.
I’m 99% sure the card works (it worked a few weeks ago)

My kernel version is 6.20rc7-2 (I’ve tried 5.15.93-1 as well)

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This seems relevant: Bluetooth - ArchWiki

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Thank you! So I did sudo modprobe bluetooth and sudo systemctl restart bluetooth. Now I get a different error when running sudo systemctl status bluetooth:

$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-02-15 11:35:31 GMT; 17s ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 8589 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19112)
     Memory: 2.1M
        CPU: 20ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─8589 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: Bluetooth daemon 5.66
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: Starting SDP server
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: profiles/audio/vcp.c:vcp_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init vcp plugin
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: profiles/audio/mcp.c:mcp_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init mcp plugin
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: profiles/audio/bap.c:bap_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init bap plugin
Feb 15 11:35:31 matrix-desktop bluetoothd[8589]: Bluetooth management interface 1.22 initialized
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Those look more informative rather then errors.
Do you still have trouble connecting your Bluetooth device?

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please post the output of

systemctl status dbus

there was an issue and to prevent that you’re affected please run the following

sudo pacman -Syu dbus

to reinstall dbus

further information:

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Output of systemctl status dbus before sudo pacman -Syu dbus:

● dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-02-15 09:57:54 GMT; 5h 11min ago
TriggeredBy: ● dbus.socket
       Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
   Main PID: 750 (dbus-daemon)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19112)
     Memory: 3.9M
        CPU: 802ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
             └─750 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only

Feb 15 11:35:49 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.220' (uid=0 pid=8617 comm="sudo systemctl status bluetooth")
Feb 15 11:35:49 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Feb 15 11:59:38 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.249' (uid=0 pid=9744 comm="(systemd)")
Feb 15 11:59:38 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Feb 15 11:59:38 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.252' (uid=0 pid=9795 comm="lightdm --session-child 15 25")
Feb 15 11:59:38 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Feb 15 15:08:11 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.421' (uid=0 pid=17855 comm="(systemd)")
Feb 15 15:08:11 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Feb 15 15:08:11 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.424' (uid=0 pid=17906 comm="lightdm --session-child 15 25")
Feb 15 15:08:11 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[750]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.

After:

● dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-02-15 15:11:32 GMT; 1min 13s ago
TriggeredBy: ● dbus.socket
       Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
   Main PID: 18487 (dbus-daemon)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19112)
     Memory: 1.8M
        CPU: 127ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
             └─18487 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only

Feb 15 15:11:39 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi'
Feb 15 15:11:39 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' unit='upower.service' requested by ':1.40' (uid=1000 pid=18764 comm="xfce4-power-manager")
Feb 15 15:11:39 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1'
Feb 15 15:11:39 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Feb 15 15:11:39 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.blueman.Mechanism' unit='blueman-mechanism.service' requested by ':1.44' (uid=1000 pid=18765 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/blueman-app>
Feb 15 15:11:39 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.blueman.Mechanism'
Feb 15 15:11:55 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.55' (uid=0 pid=19500 comm="sudo systemctl status dbus")
Feb 15 15:11:55 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Feb 15 15:12:46 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.71' (uid=0 pid=19928 comm="sudo systemctl status dbus")
Feb 15 15:12:46 matrix-desktop dbus-daemon[18487]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.

And yes, I still have problems w/ bluetooth. On a seperate note, here are some more outputs:

$ blueman-manager 
blueman-manager 15.15.04 ERROR    Manager:147 on_dbus_name_appeared: Default adapter not found, trying first available.
blueman-manager 15.15.04 ERROR    Manager:151 on_dbus_name_appeared: No adapter(s) found, exiting

$ bluetooth
bluetooth = none (no device)

Looks like it’s not recognising the device?

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please post the full output of

inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

btw.: you had been affected of the dbus-issue

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Sorry for the late reply, I’ve had some personal issues.

My output is:

$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.11-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
    root=UUID=9fa103bf-5543-46e0-bde7-98023cae4fce rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450M GAMING v: x.x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F52
    date: 01/05/2021
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.57 GiB used: 2.81 GiB (18.1%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 3
    level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23)
    model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701021
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB
    desc: 2x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2597 high: 4192 min/max: 2200/4208 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 4192 2: 2058
    3: 2087 4: 4192 5: 1873 6: 2405 7: 2200 8: 2096 9: 2200 10: 2200 11: 2067
    12: 3600 bogomips: 86279
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
    constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
    cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid
    f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs
    irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe
    msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae
    pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb
    pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a
    rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2
    sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext
    tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall
    wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP
    protection
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
    always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 525.89.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 525.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-02) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 09:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2503 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 530x301mm (20.87x11.85")
    s-diag: 610mm (24")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93
    size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.89.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX
    3060/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 0b:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.11-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8192ee
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:818b class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8168 v: 8.050.03-NAPI modules: r8169 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 894.25 GiB used: 80.3 GiB (9.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: Seagate BarraCuda Q1
    SSD ZA960CV10001 size: 894.25 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: N010
    scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 893.96 GiB size: 878.85 GiB (98.31%) used: 80.3 GiB (9.1%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
    uuid: 9fa103bf-5543-46e0-bde7-98023cae4fce
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL
    uuid: 7D57-A066
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-2:2 info: [Maxxter] USB GAMING MOUSE type: Mouse,Keyboard
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 18f8:1286 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 3-4:3 info: Holtek Mechanical Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 04d9:1836 class-ID: 0300
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 29 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
  Processes: 316 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: pm: pacman
  pkgs: 1674 libs: 391 tools: pamac,pikaur,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 running-in: terminator inxi: 3.3.25

(The kernel version is different, I’ve been experimenting w/ different kernels)

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Any new on this ? I have the same problem.
I tried everything, changed Kernel, removed fastboot etc…
Still not have bluetooth.

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If you ave dual boot, try boot on windows and desactivate wifi and bluetooth then shutdown, power on and start manjaro.