I’ve been trying to connect to my bluetooth BT-BH001 headset with 20.1 Mikah Manjaro and it is able to pair and trust, but it constantly fails to connect like so;
[bluetooth]# connect 00:56:06:08:13:D8
Attempting to connect to 00:56:06:08:13:D8
Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed
The logs show the following;
asdf12@yoga:~$ journalctl -u bluetooth | tail
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Bluetooth daemon 5.54
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Starting SDP server
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Bluetooth management interface 1.16 initialized
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.50 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.50 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
Sep 04 02:33:56 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Unable to get Headset Voice gateway SDP record: Device or resource busy
Sep 04 02:33:56 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: connect error: Device or resource busy (16)
Sep 04 02:33:58 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: connect error: Device or resource busy (16)
and
asdf12@yoga:~$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth.service
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-09-04 02:32:52 PDT; 9min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 1583 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
Tasks: 1 (limit: 18889)
Memory: 3.2M
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─1583 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Bluetooth daemon 5.54
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Starting SDP server
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Bluetooth management interface 1.16 initialized
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.50 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
Sep 04 02:32:52 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.50 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
Sep 04 02:33:56 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: Unable to get Headset Voice gateway SDP record: Device or resource busy
Sep 04 02:33:56 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: connect error: Device or resource busy (16)
Sep 04 02:33:58 yoga bluetoothd[1583]: connect error: Device or resource busy (16)
I’ve verified that I am able to connect to other devices with bluetooth such as a speaker I have, but this headset just refuses to connect. Any help would be appreciated.
Here is some device information as well. Only the address beginning with 00 seems to be the actual audio headset. I am able to connect to the other address, but the headset still gives a visual cue of being in pairing mode (flashing light) and it doesn’t give any sound output.
[bluetooth]# info 00:56:06:08:13:D8
Device 00:56:06:08:13:D8 (public)
Name: Boltune BT-BH001
Alias: Boltune BT-BH001
Class: 0x00240418
Icon: audio-card
Paired: yes
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: no
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Serial Port (00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Headset (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: bluetooth:v005Dp223Bd0100
[bluetooth]# info EC:54:26:9B:FA:26
Device EC:54:26:9B:FA:26 (random)
Name: Boltune BT-BH001
Alias: Boltune BT-BH001
Paired: yes
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: no
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Vendor specific (000002fd-3c17-d293-8e48-14fe2e4da212)
UUID: Generic Access Profile (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Battery Service (0000180f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Vendor specific (0000d0ff-3c17-d293-8e48-14fe2e4da212)
Thanks for your response. I installed pulseaudio-modules-bt and found that it conflicted with already installed pulseaudio-bluetooth. I went ahead and removed the latter to install your suggestion and restarted pulseaudio but it still does not work and all logs give the same errors as before.
Unfortunately I think I have tried this before, and doing it again, I think this still does not work for me. The only output I have when even searching for pulseaudio-module is the following
asdf12@yoga:~$ sudo pacman -Ss pulseaudio-module
community/pulseaudio-modules-bt 1.4-1.0
PulseAudio Bluetooth modules with SBC, AAC, APTX, APTX-HD, Sony LDAC (A2DP codec) support
The full pulseaudio-module-bluetooth does not show up at all even when explicitly searching for it. Trying the load-module commands errors me with this
Hi,
I had a slightly different problem recently. In my case, I could connect the headset at first but once discnnecting, I cannot reconnect. Weirdy, attempting a second connect could “broke” my computer’s bluetooth ability until I restart the computer.
Anyway, the problem was disappearing when I connect the headset with another device (an android phone) and tried to pair and connect again. Problem was seeming weird as if the headset cannot forget previous connection. Then I realized that removing the headset (by bluetoothctl remove), then re-scan and connect also made it work. I cannot find any “proper” solution to that, but I just automatize the remove-reconnect steps using expect.
I’m not sure removing and pairing againg will work for you. Probably you already tried that, but I still wanted to tell…
Based on the following logs, that very well could be the issue;
Sep 06 18:47:24 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.50 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
Sep 06 18:47:57 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: Unable to get connect data for Headset Voice gateway: getpeername: Transport endpoint is not connected (107)
Sep 06 18:47:57 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: connect error: Connection refused (111)
Sep 06 18:48:01 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: connect error: Connection refused (111)
Sep 06 18:48:14 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.50 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
Sep 06 18:48:14 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.50 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
Sep 06 18:48:25 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: a2dp-sink profile connect failed for 00:56:06:08:13:D8: Protocol not available
Sep 06 18:48:37 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: a2dp-sink profile connect failed for 00:56:06:08:13:D8: Protocol not available
Sep 06 18:51:45 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.157 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
Sep 06 18:51:45 yoga bluetoothd[4440]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.157 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
I went through the whole arch wiki page and still nothing works. This device worked fine back when I was using Ubuntu, I guess I’ll just have to keep searching.
As nice and easy as this would be, it does not work unfortunately. I appreciate your input though.
For what it’s worth, here’s some of my package list as well. I’m pretty sure I have everything installed that is necessary.
asdf12@yoga:~$ sudo pacman -Qs bluetooth
local/blueman 2.1.3-1
GTK+ Bluetooth Manager
local/bluez 5.54-2
Daemons for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/bluez-hid2hci 5.54-2
Put HID proxying bluetooth HCI's into HCI mode
local/bluez-libs 5.54-2
Deprecated libraries for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/bluez-utils 5.54-2
Development and debugging utilities for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/gnome-bluetooth 3.34.1-1
The GNOME Bluetooth Subsystem
local/hidapi 0.9.0-2
Simple library for communicating with USB and Bluetooth HID devices
local/pulseaudio-bluetooth 13.0-3
Bluetooth support for PulseAudio
local/sbc 1.4-2
Bluetooth Subband Codec (SBC) library
asdf12@yoga:~$ sudo pacman -Qs bluez
local/bluez 5.54-2
Daemons for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/bluez-hid2hci 5.54-2
Put HID proxying bluetooth HCI's into HCI mode
local/bluez-libs 5.54-2
Deprecated libraries for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/bluez-utils 5.54-2
Development and debugging utilities for the bluetooth protocol stack
asdf12@yoga:~$ sudo pacman -Qs pulseaudio
local/libcanberra-pulse 0.30+2+gc0620e4-3
PulseAudio plugin for libcanberra
local/pavucontrol 1:4.0-2
PulseAudio Volume Control
local/pulseaudio 13.0-3
A featureful, general-purpose sound server
local/pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.2-2
ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio-bluetooth 13.0-3
Bluetooth support for PulseAudio
The arch wiki suggestion did not work. I had tried downloading that package before, but it didn’t work so I removed it. I tried redownloading that package in conjunction with the default.pa fix from the wiki, still no success.
I’m tempted and willing to do basically a complete wipe of all my audio/bluetooth stuff in order to get this to work. Since it worked before with Ubuntu, I would think the issue has simply got to be the packages that I am using.
