In this howto I will describe how to fix bluetooth issue in Fedora 15. I updated Fedora 15 last night and found out my bluetooth mouse is not connected. By seeing icon at tray, it shows bluetooth is on but visibility option was faded and by selecting setting everything was faded. That means something was fishing regarding it. By investigating different fedora forums founds its been a small bug that bluetooth service were not run at startup. To fix this you have to enable the service to run at startup and start the service to use your bluetooth pheriphirals.
1) Check Bluetooth Service.
systemctl status bluetooth.service
bluetooth.service – Bluetooth Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service)
Active: inactive (dead)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/bluetooth.service
It shows my bluetooth is inactive (dead).
2) Activate Bluetooth Service.
First priority is to enable the service to be run on every startup, to do this use following command.
systemctl enable bluetooth.service
ln -s ‘/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service’ ‘/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service’
ln -s ‘/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service’ ‘/etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service’
Secondly you need to run the service to have bluetooth working on running system.
systemctl start bluetooth.service
Here you go, all bluetooth devices will be visible and can connected to your newly installed/updated Fedora 15.
Confused about systemctl command, please look fedora documentation.
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Thank you so much! You saved my day 😀
it worked so thank you!
Cool.. worked like a charm.
Thanks a lot.
My bluetooth mouse worked perfectly without but didn’t have the scroll capacity…
With this activation scroll works again 😉
Such an easy fix, thank you very much!!!
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Thank you so much, worked perfect!
Its thanks to pepole like you that stuff like linux/open source works (sorry for my english)
bluetooth service seems to be missing? what package provides this? “just worked” in f14… thanks.
$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth.service
bluetooth.service
Loaded: error
Active: inactive (dead)
$ sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service
Couldn’t find bluetooth.service.
Thanks 🙂
Hi boss i m getting the same prob nd still not solve . There is a error message ‘permisson denied.
@Deepak: This is very clear message that you are login with normal account and you dont have Admin Rights to do it. To fix this you need to become root and execute the commands.
before executing any command do
su –
and then run all those commands
————-
Regards,
Very thanks. Now I have my bluetooth connectivity working, after so much days…
thanks a lot man ……..
Thanks for the tip! Worked fine.
After typing the above commands,bluetooth service is enabled but still i m not able to connect mobile phones in fedora 15 getting error “connection failed”
Great post! I think that you should write more
Thankyou, it worked like a charm!!!
hello,my bluetooth is working (enable) and it also search my phone with bluetooth,but the problem is that is does not go further to connect it.plz reply with the solution.regards
hello,my bluetooth is working (enable) and it also search my phone with bluetooth,but the problem is that is does not go further to connect it.plz reply with the solution.my mailid is:: saini87sukh@gmail.com .regards
worked for me .. thanx .. !!
i’m using dual boot system. one is windows7 and other is fedora15 but it is not working well.so,i want to remove fedora, what should i do ?
Perfect! great job!
can you expalin how to enable & establish network with Beetel 3G data card in fedora 15?
i am facing a problem in making the dialup network with 3g usb modem……………….
Hi
Didnt work for me
got this messege
Cannot link /lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service to /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service: Permission denied
Any idea why?
+1. Thanks for the post!
Got it working when executed under root
thanks sir thanks alot….
i am unable 2 run the secon command i am new to linux plz help
[root@parashar parashar]# ln -s ‘/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service’ ‘/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service’
ln: failed to create symbolic link `‘/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service’’: No such file or directory
i am getting this problem in fedora 16 , the bluetooth applet shows thet it is on while it is disabled in setting
[root@parashar parashar]# systemctl status bluetooth.service
bluetooth.service – Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:14:52 +0530; 9min ago
Main PID: 8975 (bluetoothd)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/bluetooth.service
â”” 8975 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd -n
[root@tron suraj]# chkconfig –list
Note: This output shows SysV services only and does not include native
systemd services. SysV configuration data might be overridden by native
systemd configuration.
akmods 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
iscsi 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
iscsid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
livesys 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
livesys-late 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netconsole 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
sandbox 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
[root@tron suraj]# chkconfig –list
and following commands also give errors . can someone help
hey
even after running this commmand.
my bluetooth is disable
when i run ‘systemctl enable bluetooth.service’
no result is shown on the terminal..
It started and showed that bluetooth is active running but still my problem is not solved. The problem is visiblity of bluetooth is off and its not getting on while bluetooth is on. Do you think that it might be a driver problem or there is some bug? Thanks.
Thanks a lot……………………..
my bluetooth is active but while i try to run these command…
ln -s ‘/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service’ ‘/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service’
ln -s ‘/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service’ ‘/etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service’
ln: failed to create symbolic link `‘/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service’’: No such file or directory
……………
pls help with that