Bluetooth only sort of works F33

I upgraded to F33 about a month ago and only recently realized that my bluetooth had stopped working (worked fine in F32). I have tried a few different things but made a weird discovery: if I try to turn on the bluetooth from off to on it doesn’t work and I get a org.bluez.error.notready in the terminal. However, if I leave the bluetooth switched on and then reboot my computer, the bluetooth works.

Does anyone know how to make it consistent? I have a laptop and running my bluetooth all the time drains the battery faster.

I was going to post two screenshots, but I can’t because apparently I’m a new user on here even though I’ve been on here since August of last year :roll_eyes:
Here is a screenshot of what the bluetooth settings window looks like before I reboot

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I wonder, what happens when you follow the logs in the terminal:

sudo journalctl -f

And then try toggling the setting? Are there any relevant messages (errors (red) or warnings (yellow)) popping up?

No errors show up, but the following happens when I toggle the setting

    Apr 20 19:38:47 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status...
Apr 20 19:38:47 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status.
Apr 20 19:38:47 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Apr 20 19:38:50 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1170]: <info>  [1618961930.0542] policy: set-hostname: current hostname was changed outside NetworkManager: 'localhost.localdomain'
Apr 20 19:38:50 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1170]: <info>  [1618961930.0558] policy: set-hostname: current hostname was changed outside NetworkManager: 'localhost.localdomain'
Apr 20 19:38:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: systemd-rfkill.service: Succeeded.
Apr 20 19:38:52 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'

The “SERVICE_STOP” shows up before I toggle the Bluetooth switch off.

Hi,

I had this problem on Fedora 33 and now on Fedora 34 as well.

The bluetooth works fine after fresh installation but as soon as I restart my laptop it becomes soft blocked by rfkill:

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At first it is not even listed as blocked but after I toggle it several times from settings and from the top bar as well it becomes listed as soft blocked.

I have the same output in the console like @ourlastdefeat:

Apr 21 14:04:29 fedora systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status...
Apr 21 14:04:29 fedora systemd[1]: Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status.
Apr 21 14:04:29 fedora audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Apr 21 14:04:34 fedora systemd[1]: systemd-rfkill.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 21 14:04:34 fedora audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'

Thank you.

Does rfkill unblock the device help?

Only if I do the following:

  1. Turn it on from Settings->Bluetooth
  2. rfkill unblock
  3. Suspend the laptop

Once I wake-up the laptop, bluetooth is on but only until I turn it off. Then I have to do the whole procedure again.

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The issue has been identified and fixed in Rawhide. An update should soon be available for F34 as well. See RHBZ#1944482 for more details.

In the meantime, a sudo systemctl restart bluetooth should get your Bluetooth going again.

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Thank you so much. Looking forward to the fix.

EDIT: Just linking this other topic for the same bug.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bluetooth-dont-turn-on/76776/3

So the update is up, but it hasn’t been pushed to testing yet. Once it’s available, don’t forget to test and add karma.

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Hi, it is working for me. Thank you so much!

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