Blueman cannot detect the headphone

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My blueman cannot detect my headphone while windows bluetooth can?

What I am going to do?

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Howdy.

Post back this info before running blueman

sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth status

inxi -Fxz -r

# bluetoothctl show

then when trying pairing. Launch blueman from command line so you can see what is happening
blueman-manager

Also you need to unblock and turn on bluetooth in conman
rfkill list

will show it’s current status. Good Luck.

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Additionally, please make sure your user is member of the group “bluetooth“.

antiX main menu → “maintenance” → “user management” → Tab: “tribal identity”
From dropdown menu select your user and check the box “bluetooth”, then click “apply”.

Change of your current user’s group membership will take place only after logging out and log in again (no full reboot needed).

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You could try another kernel.
We need more information.

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@ robin.

I thought checking the box and hitting apply would remove bluetooth from the owners group.

Plus I read that lp is what is needed on group to tether to bluetooth

@shop:~
$ groups
harry lp dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users netdev lpadmin scanner

am I mistaken thinking this? Or does this only apply to live sessions.

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Hello rokytnji,

rokytnji wrote:

I thought checking the box and hitting apply would remove bluetooth from the owners group.

How this? Checking a box adds the user to the group, making him member of the very group, while unchecking the box removes the user from a group membership. (The box in my screenshot shows unchecked state, since the PC doesn’t have bluetooth.)

rokytnji wrote:

Or does this only apply to live sessions.

No, that’s all the same for any linux, regardless whether live or installed. Merely the group names might differ. And programs may add their private groups (example: vboxusers), as well as users can add groups as needed. This is useful for e.g. excluding users from access to and reading (or writing) in specific directories (then these users should not have root access and not being member of the sudo group, which would render it useless). On multi user systems this way you can easily grant access to different services or tools or folders to different users, simply based on their group membership.

rokytnji wrote:

I read that lp is what is needed on group to tether to bluetooth

This is true, strange enough, arch linux instructions say so, and it’s probably also true for antix (have not tested this, no bluetooth device around). But nevertheless, basically the group management works this way: If you want to use the line-printer (lp), which means to have access to the parallel port device, you need to be member if the group lp. If you want to use a document scanner, you need to be member of the group scanner, and possibly also member of sane, and so on. So, if you want to use the bluetooth device… just check the box to be member of that group the same way.

Further reading (a list of default debian user groups and how to make use of them)
https://wiki.debian.org/SystemGroups#Other_System_Groups

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Thanks robin. Gonna see if this fixes my bluetooth problem on my chromebook and other antiX installs.

Well no joy on the shop computer. I don’t have bluetooth dongle inserted though

harry@shop:~
$ inxi -E
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.

But I added bluetooth to the group

harry@shop:~
$ groups
harry lp dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users netdev bluetooth lpadmin scanner

and logged in and out and tried to launch blueman anyways

harry@shop:~
$ blueman-manager
blueman-manager version 2.1.4 starting
Blueman applet needs to be running
harry@shop:~
$ blueman-applet
blueman-applet version 2.1.4 starting
blueman-applet 19.16.15 WARNING  PluginManager:148 __load_plugin: Not loading PPPSupport because its conflict has higher priority
blueman-applet 19.16.15 WARNING  PluginManager:148 __load_plugin: Not loading DhcpClient because its conflict has higher priority
blueman-tray version 2.1.4 starting
blueman-applet 19.16.30 ERROR    BasePlugin:76 _load     : Error calling StartServiceByName for org.blueman.Mechanism: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/blueman/main/DBusProxies.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.init()
gi.repository.GLib.GError: g-dbus-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.blueman.Mechanism: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 (25)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

I coulda posted more traceback errors but I figure you get the idea. No Worky even with a dongle unplugged. Besides this is not my thread.

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$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth status
bluetooth is running.

$ inxi -Fxz -r
...
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 2-1.8.1.3:8
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0
...

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Finally my JBL headset appears in the blueman manager, it hardly appears.
The error shows: Connection Failed: Protocol not available
Many posts suggest me to install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1421089/cant-connect-bluetooth-headphones-anymore

While I cannot install it with command line:

$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth : Depends: libpulse0 (= 14.2-2) but 14.2-2.0nosystemd1 is to be installed
                               Depends: pulseaudio (= 14.2-2)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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Thanks, some other devices are detectable through bluetooth, while Connection Failed: Protocol not available happens often.

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It was asked for
inxi -Fxz -r
but you posted only a small part of the output.
We still don’t even know which version of antiX is installed.
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth is required for audio bluetooth devices, if it can’t get installed probably the repos is wrong. The inxi -Fxz -r output would allow a look.

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caprea wrote:

$ inxi -Fxz -r
…
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 2-1.8.1.3:8
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0
…

Attached is the full output, when I paste the whole output, antix linux prohibit me doing this indicating there is a security issue.

cat /etc/antix-version
antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021

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From the output.txt

Repos:
  Packages: 1919
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list

You somehow disabled the antiX sources. Please use repo-manager, control-centre > Software > Repo Manager
On the antiX Repos tab click on the button for “Automatic selection of the fastest currently available antiX repo server”

Afterwards sudo apt update from terminal and then try again to install
pulseaudio
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pavucontrol

To make pulseaudio autostart at boot you have to go to
control-centre > session > User-desktop-session
On the startup tab search for pulseaudio and make it look like that

## Uncomment if using pulseaudio (you need to install it). Make sure it starts before volumeicon.
pulseaudio -D &

Reboot
Now you can try again blueman

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I don’t think I disable the antix repo. The updated output.txt still shows No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list

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You somehow disabled the antiX sources

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That’s strange, if you open the list in geany

sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list

it should contain this

# Use with Debian Bullseye repositories. 
deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mxlinux/antix/bullseye/ bullseye main nosystemd nonfree 
#deb-src http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mxlinux/antix/bullseye/ bullseye main nosystemd nonfree 

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