bluetoothd won't start

[Dan]

Does anyone know how to debug bluetoothd not starting.  I'm having some trouble with the latest 4.0.3 build.  I just repo synced and the build was clean, but bluetoothd won't start - so the GUI in Setting fails, and obviously bluetooth doesn't work.

 Bluetoothd is started from init.rc, but fails.  And when you try to start it manually with bluetoothd -n -d you get the following:

bluetoothd[2391]: Bluetooth deamon 4.93

bluetoothd[2391]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/main.conf failed: No such file or directory  (I have an older working build with same error but still works)

bluetoothd[2391]: Starting SDP server

bluetoothd[2391]: opening L2CAP socket: Operation not permitted

bluetoothd[2391]: Server initialization failed

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Loading builtin plugins

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/src/plugin.c:add_plugin() Loading hciops plugin

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Loading plugins /system/lib/bluez-plugin

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/src/plugin.c:add_plugin() Loading input plugin

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/src/plugin.c:add_plugin() Loading health plugin

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/src/plugin.c:add_plugin() Loading network plugin

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/src/plugin.c:add_plugin() Loading audio plugin

bluetoothd[2391]: Failed to open control socket: Operation not permitted (1)

bluetoothd[2391]: Can't init bnep module

bluetoothd[2391]: Failed to init network plugin

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/plugins/hciops.c:hciops_init() 

bluetoothd[2391]: external/bluetooth/bluez/plugins/hciops.c:hciops_setup() 

bluetoothd[2391]: Can't open HCI socket: Operation not permitted (1)

bluetoothd[2391]: adapter_ops_setup failed

This is a lot of information on this L2CAP socket error and permissions with rfkill0, but I don't know where to begin to fix this. 

[Christopher Price]

If you can, I would switch to a Jelly Bean build, especially 4.2 or 4.3. The Bluetooth stack on x85 has undergone major revisions and may have solved the problem you're suffering from.

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Christopher Price

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[Dan]

Thanks Christopher.  I scrapped the 4.0 and downloaded 4.3.  The different devices build fine, so I'm off to start testing.

Dan

[Terry Poulin]

While I'm not sure where it is in the foodchain yet, on my machine with 4.3 Bluetooth has been working fine, as long as you NEVER try to turn it off or let the device go to suspend/sleep. Then you need a reboot to fix it.