Unfortunately, the update released recently is exactly what broke it for me :-(
Before that, all was okay and my Philips headset connected fine, also A2DP was ok. But for about 1 week, it is completely broken. Now after the update, I can't even pair it anymore. When I start from scratch to pair, it pairs for 1 or 2 seconds, then disconnects immediately. When trying to "turn on" the pairing again via the settings/bluetooth gui, it won't even let me move from off to on. I am running Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS. Anybody got an idea how to fix it...? It really is annoying to use earphones with cable :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574324 Title: pulseaudio crashes when connecting to bluetooth headphones (due to ubuntu changes?) Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in pulseaudio source package in Xenial: Fix Released Status in pulseaudio source package in Yakkety: Fix Released Bug description: Impact: A patch we carry for Ubuntu touch introduced a change that originally was required to make sure PulseAudio did not crash. This patch was ported to PulseAudio 8 in Xenial, but the patch author's bluetooth hardware that was to hand at the time worked so was assumed to be ok. However, the opposite is now happening, i.e PulseAudio is crashing with a subset of Bluetooth hardware. Regression potential: Very low to none. As can be read in this report, much debugging and testing has been done to find the problem, and the eventual fix. Moreover the change is the removal of a patch hunk that removed a line of code originally present in PulseAudio. Test case: NOTE that this test case applies to bluetooth hardware that is identified as not working in this bug report. 1. Install, or upgrade to Xenial or yakkety. 2. Pair your bluetooth device in the bluetooth settings in the relevant settings application for your desktop environment. 3. Once paired, you will notice that sound stops working, as pulseaudio has thrown an assertion error. 4. You do not have to remove your audio device from the paired device list, but it may be easier to do so for the next part of the testing. 5. Update to the version of PulseAudio in xenial-proposed which is 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.1, or in yakkety-proposed, which is 1:9.0-2ubuntu2.1. 6. Re-pair your device. Audio should continue to work, and you should be able to switch to your bluetooth device and use it. Original bug report: When I attempt to connect my Jaybird Bluebuds X to Ubuntu 16.04 pulseaudio crashes, this does *NOT* happen with a Jambox which leads me to believe it's an intermittent problem with some hardware. This did not happen on Ubuntu 15.10 (which was an upgrade of 15.04). Ubuntu Release: Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release: 16.04 Pulseaudio Version: pulseaudio: Installed: 1:8.0-0ubuntu3 Candidate: 1:8.0-0ubuntu3 Version table: *** 1:8.0-0ubuntu3 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Device info: [bluetooth]# info 44:5E:F3:B4:07:29 Device 44:5E:F3:B4:07:29 Name: BlueBuds X Alias: BlueBuds X Class: 0x240404 Icon: audio-card Paired: yes Trusted: yes Blocked: no Connected: no LegacyPairing: no UUID: Headset (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Handsfree (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Unknown (000080ff-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) I have also attached a debug dump of Pulseaudio when attempting to connect to the headphones. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1574324/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp