Bluetooth not working properly

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Hey guys, I’m using Fedora Silverblue (upgraded to pinned 30) on my Razer Blade Pro 2018. On normal Fedora, the Beats Studio works fine, but on Silverblue it isn’t. I can however connect my Logitech MX mouse without any problems.

Checking the bluetooth service, I’m getting this:

systemctl status bluetooth

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-03-28 14:49:59 CET; 16min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 1045 (bluetoothd)
Status: “Running”
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 4.2M
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─1045 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Mar 28 14:49:59 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: Starting SDP server
Mar 28 14:49:59 arx-razer systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Mar 28 14:49:59 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized
Mar 28 14:50:01 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.93 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
Mar 28 14:50:01 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.93 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
Mar 28 14:50:30 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.195 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
Mar 28 14:50:30 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.195 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
Mar 28 14:50:30 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: RFCOMM server failed for Headset Voice gateway: rfcomm_bind: Address already in use (98)
Mar 28 14:50:30 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: RFCOMM server failed for :1.195/Profile/HSPHSProfile/00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb: rfcomm_bind: Address already in use (98)
Mar 28 14:53:08 arx-razer bluetoothd[1045]: Pair device timed out for hci0

I check rfcomm but the rfcomm -a returns nothing.

The kernel is 5.0.0-300.fc30.x86_64 and I’m with secure boot disabled. The bluetooth service finds the phones, but it doesn’t setup or connect.

I don’t have other headset to test…

Dmesg shows nothing related to bluetooth or errors.

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Problem solved:

Reinstall the system with fedora 29, configure the bluetooth, than upgrade to 30.

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does anyone has a fix that does not involve reinstalling the system.
I can pair my headset… but the new device never show in sound settings as output device (or input device for the mic).

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I’ve had some issues with bluetooth audio devices on Silverblue (both 29 and 30) - typically the issue I see is once the headset is paired, it fails to connect sometimes (especially when the connection is initiated from Silverblue, but also sometimes when initiated from the headset). Generally I find some combination of turn bluetooth off/turn headset off/sleep laptop/wake laptop/turn headset and bluetooth back on/initiate connection typicaly seems to resolve it… reliably enough that I haven’t dug further into the issue myself at the moment :laughing: