Bluetooth Toggling off immediately after trying to turn it on

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Hey there, very new to linux

I’m on Fedora 42 and can’t turn my bluetooth on, see this gif:

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My Laptop: **HP ZBook Ultra G1a**

Some things I tried but didn’t help:

sudo systemctl disable bluetooth && sleep 30 && sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth

sudo rmmod btusb

sudo modprobe btusb

Some outputs:

systemctl status bluetooth

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-08-30 14:28:41 CEST; 3h 10min ago
 Invocation: 276da340f5d54ca68a6c8838339907d8
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 2838 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 57235)
     Memory: 2.1M (peak: 5.3M)
        CPU: 18ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─2838 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd


uname -r
6.16.3-200.fc42.x86_64

this command shows that something is down, not sure what it means though :smiley:

hciconfig
hci0:	Type: Primary  Bus: USB
	BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00  ACL MTU: 0:0  SCO MTU: 0:0
	DOWN 
	RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
	TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:1 errors:1

Let me know if you need any other info :slight_smile:

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For some reason it suddenly works.

I don’t think / remember doing anything. I suddenly noticed that the “Blueetooth Menu” was blue and I can turn it off and on.

Not sure if any update happened to the system in the background I at least don’t remember installing it.

But I’m quite happy :smiley:

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BlueTooth is often active at the UEFI/BIOS level to support BT keyboards, mice, etc. There can be conflicts with the linux driver, but often resolved with a power-off cycle.

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Intersting. I for sure restarted a already before a few times, but it’s possible that I enver fully powered off for a few seconds. Anyay, happy to report, that it’s still working :smiley: