Bluetooth won't turn on in Manjaro Plasma

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Bluetooth wasn’t working correctly and I went to restart it using the bluetooth icon on the panel, and when I turn it on, visually it says it’s on, but the icon on the panel is in constent loading and I can’t connect to or add new devices. I’ve tried restarting the services via commands but that didn’t seem to do anything.

  Kernel: 5.17.0-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17-x86_64
    root=UUID=0595d6c1-6f6f-403c-a5ad-535caa3cf6d4 rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.3 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 2
    dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B250M Performance
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: P2.30
    date: 02/23/2018
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.59 GiB used: 9.13 GiB (58.6%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S
    family: 6 model-id: 0x5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xEC
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1153 high: 1200 min/max: 800/4200 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1200 2: 1200 3: 1200
    4: 1200 5: 1200 6: 1200 7: 1128 8: 900 bogomips: 64026
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
    arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt
    cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts
    epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr
    ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid
    invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr
    nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln
    pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap
    smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow
    tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave
    xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  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: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
  Display: wayland server: X .org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.0
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu d-rect: 3520x1980 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 pos: bottom-r res: 1600x900 size: N/A modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,top-left res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
    modes: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.44.0
    5.17.0-1-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.1)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
    vendor: XFX Pine driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 0c76:161e
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-4: Razer USA Barracuda X type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 1532:0536
    class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.0-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASRock driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s31f6 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
  Device-2: Realtek 802.11ac NIC type: USB driver: N/A bus-ID: 1-8:5
    chip-ID: 0bda:c811 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: anbox0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-7:18 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 453.67 GiB (16.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WDS100T2B0C size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 211210WD temp: 45.9 C scheme: MBR
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102
    size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.81 GiB (98.31%)
    used: 221.97 GiB (24.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
    label: N/A uuid: 0595d6c1-6f6f-403c-a5ad-535caa3cf6d4
  ID-2: /mnt/Extra raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (98.37%)
    used: 231.69 GiB (12.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: Extra
    uuid: 8394ae11-d7ef-465a-b554-6b01b841b781
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: 12 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-4:2 info: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: Audio,HID
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0c76:161e class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 1-6:3 info: Razer USA Barracuda X type: Audio,HID
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 1532:0536 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: 1-7:18 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
    type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Device-4: 1-8:5 info: Realtek 802.11ac NIC type: WiFi driver: N/A
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:c811
    class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 1-11:6 info: Realtek RTS5411 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 0bda:5411 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-11.3:8 info: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum Optical Mouse
    type: Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 046d:c332 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 1-12:7 info: NEC HighSpeed Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 0409:005a class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-12.3:9 info: SteelSeries ApS Merc Stealth type: Keyboard,HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 1038:0510 class-ID: 0300
  Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 2-4:2 info: Realtek Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 0bda:0411 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 50.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 789
Info:
  Processes: 300 Uptime: 14h 11m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 250
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1420
  pacman: 1400 lib: 370 flatpak: 12 snap: 8 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8.1 default: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.14```
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Since I have use a bluetooth adapter via usb, I just unplugged it and plugged it back in, but I still don’t want this everytime this happens, so if someone knows how to fix this problem, it would be greatly appreciated.

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:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

  1. Please read this:
    [HowTo] Provide System Information
    and press the three dots … below your post and press the :pencil2: to give us more information so we can see what’s really going on.
    Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies… :grin:
  2. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
    Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.

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Thank you, I have updated the post with the information, I hope it works.

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well i had myself more trouble than enough with bluetooth and manjaro in the latest version. i flipped to a different distro because of that. what i experienced is that kernel-versions above 5.4 will cause trouble with bluetooth and i can’t see any solution for me other than to wait that it get fixed with a better bluetooth management. you can try to downgrade to a older kernel version and see what happens.