The problem appears to be with setting up the input sink, which I couldn't care less about. If any knows of a way for bluez / pulseaudio to force a device to just connect as an output-only device (e.g., normal bluetooth speaker), I think I'd be fine, as I have no problems with numerous other bluetooth speakers.
If not, I think for me the key is to figure out why the input sink cannot be established due to the "device or resource busy" message. If I could figure out how to a detailed debug / strace of bluetoothd when it tries to establish the input sink, that'd be most helpful. I've tried before w/o finding anything helpful. For me, I think the issue is not with pulseaudio but truly with bluez. Given this, I'd like to request that my bug 1691556 be re-opened and unmarked as a duplicate. From my perspective, no evidence or explanation has been given for why my report was marked as a duplicate as this one. The errors I've been continually reporting are different than those reported by others, and the fixes that seem to work for others do not work for me. For the record, here are the pulseaudio and bluez packages I presently have installed on my Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS 64-bit on an Intel NUC i5 (NUC5i5RYH): -------------------- ``` morse@n1 intel-nuc-i5-n1> dpkg -l bluez* pulsea* Gewünscht=Unbekannt/Installieren/R=Entfernen/P=Vollständig Löschen/Halten | Status=Nicht/Installiert/Config/U=Entpackt/halb konFiguriert/ Halb installiert/Trigger erWartet/Trigger anhängig |/ Fehler?=(kein)/R=Neuinstallation notwendig (Status, Fehler: GROSS=schlecht) ||/ Name Version Architektur Beschreibung +++-===============================================-============================-============================-=================================================================================================== ii bluez 5.37-0ubuntu5 amd64 Bluetooth tools and daemons un bluez-alsa <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un bluez-audio <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii bluez-cups 5.37-0ubuntu5 amd64 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS un bluez-gnome <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un bluez-input <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un bluez-network <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii bluez-obexd 5.37-0ubuntu5 amd64 bluez obex daemon un bluez-serial <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un bluez-utils <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3~xenial1 amd64 PulseAudio sound server un pulseaudio-esound-compat <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3~xenial1 amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-gconf 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3~xenial1 amd64 GConf module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-x11 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3~xenial1 amd64 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-zeroconf 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3~xenial1 amd64 Zeroconf module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-utils 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3~xenial1 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server ``` -------------------- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582213 Title: [xenial] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1582213/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs