It seems some of the issues I was having seem to have stemmed from being in standby mode and resuming thereafter.
>From a clean boot, here's my current steps/output to get the BT device working: 1. Power on system, wait to 'settle': May 21 15:00:46 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG May 21 15:00:46 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS May 21 15:00:46 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource May 21 15:00:46 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink May 21 15:00:47 chrispad dbus[733]: [system] Activating service name='org.blueman.Mechanism' (using servicehelper) May 21 15:00:47 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG May 21 15:00:47 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS May 21 15:00:47 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource May 21 15:00:47 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink May 21 15:00:47 chrispad blueman-mechanism: Starting blueman-mechanism May 21 15:00:47 chrispad dbus[733]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.blueman.Mechanism' May 21 15:00:47 chrispad blueman-mechanism: loading Network May 21 15:00:47 chrispad blueman-mechanism: loading Config May 21 15:00:47 chrispad blueman-mechanism: loading Ppp May 21 15:00:47 chrispad blueman-mechanism: loading RfKill May 21 15:01:05 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.26 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG May 21 15:01:05 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.26 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS May 21 15:01:05 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.26 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource May 21 15:01:05 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.26 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink May 21 15:01:05 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: hci0: Remove UUID (0x0011) failed: Busy (0x0a) May 21 15:01:17 chrispad blueman-mechanism: Exiting 2. Load bluetooth-discover: $ pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover 23 May 21 15:01:28 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.63 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG May 21 15:01:28 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.63 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS May 21 15:01:28 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.63 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource May 21 15:01:28 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.63 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink 3. Power on Bluetooth device (headset connection is started, then terminated): May 21 15:02:04 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: /org/bluez/832/hci0/dev_00_16_94_0B_94_FA/fd0: fd(25) ready May 21 15:02:04 chrispad rtkit-daemon[1390]: Successfully made thread 2301 of process 1968 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. May 21 15:02:04 chrispad rtkit-daemon[1390]: Supervising 4 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. May 21 15:02:07 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Connection refused (111) May 21 15:02:10 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: Audio connection got disconnected 4. Press 'play' button on Bluetooth device (initiates ad2p?): May 21 15:02:17 chrispad bluetoothd[832]: /org/bluez/832/hci0/dev_00_16_94_0B_94_FA/fd1: fd(26) ready May 21 15:02:17 chrispad rtkit-daemon[1390]: Successfully made thread 2303 of process 1968 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. May 21 15:02:17 chrispad rtkit-daemon[1390]: Supervising 4 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. May 21 15:02:17 chrispad kernel: [ 127.156924] input: 00:16:94:0B:94:FA as /devices/virtual/input/input18 After that, I get AD2P audio available on my headset. I tried this same procedure with an AD2P-only speaker setup, and it works as well after selecting Connect -> Audio Sink in blueman. The interesting thing here is that it seems to load this module during startup, then unload it again a few seconds later. Curious as to why that might be, but I agree, that does seem to resolve the issue. I'll check how it works during standby/sleep and report as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bluez in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199059 Title: blueman and pulse's module-bluetooth-discover (A2DP audio sink devices failed to work with "bluetoothd : Unable to select SEP" in system log.) Status in “blueman” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “bluez” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “bluez” package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: All my A2DP profile devices can't create a audio device properly... My 2 13.04 machines both have this issue(1 notebook, 2 bluetooth dongles) UPDATE: Upgraded to 13.10, still reproducible Possible root cause & fix: Please refer #15 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: bluez 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-21.32-generic 3.8.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jul 9 01:01:38 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-26 (162 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130126) InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name MarkForUpload: True ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-21-generic root=UUID=9bce9679-da3a-44fd-84ec-b16339a84004 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: bluez UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-01 (128 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/18/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1101 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: P7H55-M dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1101:bd08/18/2010:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP7H55-M:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer hciconfig: hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:15:83:54:59:9F ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:29508 acl:1270 sco:0 events:461 errors:0 TX bytes:5249 acl:165 sco:0 commands:95 errors:0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blueman/+bug/1199059/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp