[SOLVED] Re: Bluetooth speakers: pairing problem in Debian trixie (GNOME)
Updating the firmware on the bluetooth speaker has resolved this
problem; reconnecting to it from Debian trixie on the laptop now
succeeds as expected.
On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 at 10:59, James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Debianites,
>
> I've recently updated my X1 Yoga laptop to Debian trixie from
> bookworm, and currently I use the GNOME desktop environment.
>
> In bookworm I was able to pair with some bluetooth speakers I have at
> home, and could reconnect to those after a reboot of the laptop. This
> would wake the speakers from their sleep power state if necessary, and
> audio from the desktop environment would begin routing to them.
>
> After the upgrade to trixie, reconnecting to the bluetooth speakers
> after a reboot or when waking the laptop from sleep fails. After
> attempting to reconnect to the speakers, the bluetooth connection
> status very briefly flickers (for maybe a tenth of a second) a status
> of 'connected', but then the connection drops. The speakers
> themselves do not wake from sleep.
>
> As a workaround, I can unpair/remove the device from GNOME's bluetooth
> settings panel, then put the speakers into pairing mode using their
> remote control, before scanning for them on the laptop and
> reconnecting -- but that is comparatively quite a lot of steps
> compared to simply clicking to reconnect button from the laptop (the
> previous, bookworm experience).
>
> There is cluster of error messages that appears in the output of
> 'journalctl -xeu bluetooth' during the failed reconnection attempts:
>
> Aug 22 11:47:31 localhost bluetoothd[1086]:
> profiles/audio/avdtp.c:avdtp_connect_cb() connect to
> 7C:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX: Permission denied (13)
> Aug 22 11:47:31 localhost bluetoothd[1086]:
> src/service.c:btd_service_connect() a2dp-source profile connect failed
> for 7C:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX: Device or resource busy
> Aug 22 11:47:33 localhost bluetoothd[1086]:
> profiles/audio/avdtp.c:avdtp_connect_cb() connect to
> 7C:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX: Too many levels of symbolic links (40)
>
> Has anyone had similar experiences following an upgrade to trixie, or
> any ideas what I can do to try to diagnose and report this as a bug?
>
> Note: there is no pairing PIN required for the speakers.
>
> Thanks!
> James
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