bluetooth stopped working after installing python3 [SOLVED]

[ramack]

My bluetooth had been working until I installed python3 packages yesterday. My guess is that it's a conflict from having python2 and python3 installed and now when starting the bluetooth, something is missing and it won't initialize. I have found https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-f ... bian-linux, but concerned that if I switch the default to python3 more things will break. I could apt-get purge or apt-get remove, but doing so will also now remove other packages that I need to keep installed.

$ uname -a
Linux RDesktopDeb 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u5 (2017-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ python --version
Python 2.7.13

I've removed and installed bluez, bluetoothblueman bluetooth pulseaudio-module-bluetooth bluez-firmware bluez-tools.

I'm guessing that it's the python2 and python3 installation from keeping the bluez daemon from starting.

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$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth status
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Sat 2017-10-14 07:10:17 MDT; 1min 0s ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
[ ok ] Starting bluetooth (via systemctl): bluetooth.service.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth status
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Sat 2017-10-14 07:11:37 MDT; 5s ago
           └─ ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth was not met
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)

Any ideas? Thanks.

[ramack]

I decided to try following the steps here.
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-f ... bian-linux

No change.

This morning I ran
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Today, dist-upgrade didn't show any packages being removed so I proceeded. Yesterday there were several package that would be removed, so I only updated. Two package upgraded through the dist-upgrade were kernel and kernel-headers. I rebooted after dist-upgrade was completed, however, still no bluetooth.

Running lsusb didn't show the usb BT adapter, so several times I removed and replaced it without it showing up. I removed the adapter and rebooted. Once on my desktop, I plugged the adapter back in, without it showing up still.

Searching a bit more, I found this thread/post: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 89#p558906 and rebooted. I removed the adapter and when I plugged it back in and ran lsusb the device showed up. And at that point bluetooth started working, so marking topic [SOLVED].