No bluetooth on Linux with 4.9.3 appimage (Confirmed still working fine with 4.9.1

[Jason Bramwell]

I updated the Subsurface appimage to 4.9.3 yesterday on my Linux Mint MATE 19.2 laptop and today when i try to download dives from my OSTC Plus Subsurface tells me "The local Bluetooth adaptor cannot be accessed". If i launch the appimage with -vvv then i see this comment in the console output "Cannot find a running Bluez. Please check the Bluez installation". Can anyone else confirm this functionality? I only have the one Linux machine here currently that i can try.

Regards

Jason

[Dirk Hohndel]

Bluetooth is a bit hit and miss with the AppImage. On Mate 19.2 you should be able to use the native Ubuntu app. Have you tried that?

/D

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[Jason Bramwell]

Dirk,

Yes it does, i can't believe i didn't think of trying a native install prior to sending the message (sorry). Interesting to hear about the hit and miss bluetooth with the AppImage, my experience with the AppImage has been great so far but i must confess i'm a fairly new convert to the AppImage.

Amazingly quick response too BTW.

Jason

[Dirk Hohndel]

Because of crashes with the map I ended up upgrading the QT version inside the AppImage and I noticed that I saw the same Bluetooth issue that you mentioned in one of my tests.

I haven't had the time to figure out what is causing that.

/D

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[JB2Cool]

Thanks for the explanation as to where this issue is coming from. I'll use the native app for the time being.

JB

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 11:51:30 AM UTC-7, JB2Cool wrote:

Thanks for the explanation as to where this issue is coming from. I'll use the native app for the time being.

So, per my other thread, 4.9.1 appimage crashes on start on my debian system, and 4.9.3 works but BT support is non working.

I also tried to use the ubuntu package and BT works enough to see my perdrix AI but not to download from it.

Is there an appimage that actually works for you, including BT? 

[Michał Sawicz]

W dniu 30.10.2019 o 15:46, Marc MERLIN pisze:

> I also tried to use the ubuntu package and BT works enough to see my
> perdrix AI but not to download from it.
>
> Is there an appimage that actually works for you, including BT? 

Hi Marc,

Is the "ubuntu package" you refer to the .deb one? Have you tried the
snap version [1]?

Dirk, any chance to get some visibility on the snap package? :)

[1] https://snapcraft.io/subsurface
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[Marc MERLIN]

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8:00:58 AM UTC-7, Michał Sawicz wrote:

Hi Marc,

Is the "ubuntu package" you refer to the .deb one? Have you tried the
snap version [1]?

That sounded inspiring, but:

 saruman:~# snap install hello-world

2019/11/01 12:42:03.448508 api.go:879: Installing snap "hello-world" revision unset

error: cannot perform the following tasks:

- Mount snap "core" (7917) ([daemon-reload] failed with exit status 1: System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.

Failed to connect to bus: Host is down

I'm so not ready to upgrade my laptop to systemd, it will be days/weeks of downtime/breakage that I can't afford. I'll look into that as a fresh install whenever I buy my next laptop.

Is there a snapd that doesn't needlessly require systemd? Mmmh, according to https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/installing-and-running-snaps-without-systemd/3949/11 , the answer is no :(

Well so much for snap then.

[Benjamin]

Marc, if you are semi-comfortable with the command line, consider building Subsurface yourself? It's a matter of a few commands ( all documented ) and doesn't take long.

Benjamin 

Benjamin

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