Jitu

In my Debian box the Bluetooth Applet segfaulted whenever a USB Bluetooth dongle was inserted. The relevant log entry (e.g. dmesg|tail) looked like this:

Oct 6 14:04:41 jitu kernel: [ 90.400199] usb 7-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Oct 6 14:04:41 jitu kernel: [ 90.686465] usb 7-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0a12, idProduct=0001
Oct 6 14:04:41 jitu kernel: [ 90.686473] usb 7-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
Oct 6 14:04:41 jitu kernel: [ 90.686646] usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Oct 6 14:04:41 jitu hcid[3085]: HCI dev 0 registered
Oct 6 14:04:41 jitu hcid[3085]: HCI dev 0 up
Oct 6 14:04:41 jitu hcid[3085]: Device hci0 has been added
Oct 6 14:04:41 jitu hcid[3085]: Starting security manager 0
Oct 6 14:04:42 jitu hcid[3085]: Device hci0 has been activated
Oct 6 14:04:42 jitu kernel: [ 91.208984] bluetooth-apple[3333]: segfault at 0 ip b70e2e18 sp bfffbefc error 4 in libc-2.7.so[b706d000+155000]

Here the bluetooth-apple(t), a part of gnome-bluetooth, crashed. Hence no user friendly symbol showed up next to the clock allowing the easy transfer of files to a Bluetooth device. However in the console hcitool scan and sdptool browse worked and displayed the correct data.

The solution was to include the current user into the group netdev. You can check your membership of the groups by typing groups in the console. If netdev is not listed, execute a adduser netdev as root and restart the x-server to update this information.

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