Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

This issue seems to not be fixed entirely, after all. Yesterday, the earbuds would pair but not connect when I powered them on. I had to connect them manually each time, using either bluetoothctl or blueman-manager. At one point they disconnected, and subsequent attempts to reconnect them resulted in a "Device or resource busy" error in syslog. I had to remove them and go through the pairing and connection process again to fix it.

So, there's definitely still a problem here, although they do work most of the time, which is better than where I started.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 5:52 PM deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:

Mark Fletcher wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 01:21:03PM -0400, David Parker wrote:
>> Ok, I think I may have solved the connectivity issue. Some additional
>> Googling revealed that GDM starts an instance of PulseAudio, and that
>> conflicts with the PulseAudio server used by the Bluetooth device. The
>> steps to stop GDM from starting PulseAudio can be found online, and I've
>> adapted them for Buster here:
>>
>> (as root):
>> echo "autospawn = no" >> /var/lib/gdm3/.config/pulse/client.conf
>> echo "daemon-binary = /bin/true" >>
>> /var/lib/gdm3/.config/pulse/client.conf su - Debian-gdm -c "mkdir -p
>> /var/lib/gdm3/.config/systemd/user" su - Debian-gdm -c "ln -s /dev/null
>> /var/lib/gdm/.config/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket"
>>
>
> Ah -- that old chestnut! I had that problem back in the day (wheezy or
> stretch, I don't remember which) with a pair of high-end bluetooth
> headphones.
>
> I recently fresh-installed Buster, I've used Bluetooth with a speaker
> but not with my headphones without problems, but I just checked and I
> _do_ have 2 instances of pulseaudio running, one as my regular user and
> one as Debian-<something>. Isn't that a bug in Debian's setup? Is there
> some reason one would want things that way?
>
> Mark

I just check, I do not use gdm - don't have it installed, but I also have
two processes. I found this and many other entries dedicated to the topic

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/11/msg01119.html

However I do not have any issues with audio - very strange - also the date
of the thread.

regards