[Testing - Bookworm] Bluetooth stopped working after upgrade [solved]

[Hallvor]

So I tested Bookworm on a spare computer and had immediate problems with Bluetooth.

System info:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.0-7-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4600U CPU @ 2.10GHz
Memory: 7.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4400
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 20ARA1DJMN
System Version: ThinkPad T440s

Behavior: Bluetooth can't see or connect to my audio devices. (pulseaudio-module-bluetooth is installed, and everything worked flawlessly in Bullseye.)

Notice how it complains about Sap driver failure.

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l 27 21:13:45 debian kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Legacy ROM 2.5 revision 8.0 build 2 week 3 2013
april 27 21:13:45 debian kernel: bluetooth hci0: firmware: direct-loading firmware intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq
april 27 21:13:45 debian kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware file: intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq
april 27 21:13:45 debian kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Intel BT fw patch 0x57 completed & activated
april 27 21:13:45 debian bluetoothd[1392]: profiles/sap/server.c:sap_server_register() Sap driver initialization failed.
april 27 21:13:45 debian bluetoothd[1392]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)
april 27 21:13:45 debian kernel: Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]: QQmlExpression: Expression file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray/contents/ui/ExpandedRepresentation.qml:181:21 depends on non-NOTIFYab>
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]:     QAction::priority
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]:     QAction::priority
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]:     QAction::priority
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]: QQmlExpression: Expression file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray/contents/ui/ExpandedRepresentation.qml:181:21 depends on non-NOTIFYab>
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]:     QAction::priority
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]:     QAction::priority
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]:     QAction::priority
april 27 21:13:45 debian plasmashell[1793]: file:///usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/qml/org/kde/plasma/core/private/DefaultToolTip.qml:69:13: QML Label: Binding loop detected for property "verticalAlignment"
april 27 21:13:45 debian systemd[1]: Reached target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth Support.
april 27 21:13:45 debian systemd[1614]: Reached target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth.
april 27 21:13:54 debian bluetoothd[1392]: src/service.c:btd_service_connect() a2dp-sink profile connect failed for F8:5C:7D:D2:8D:AA: Protocol not available
april 27 21:13:54 debian plasmashell[1793]: kf.bluezqt: PendingCall Error: "br-connection-profile-unavailable"

And some more data. "a2dp-sink profile connect failed" and "protocol not available".

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systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-04-27 21:24:04 CEST; 13min ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 6629 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9093)
     Memory: 940.0K
        CPU: 63ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─6629 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

april 27 21:24:04 debian bluetoothd[6629]: profiles/audio/mcp.c:mcp_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
april 27 21:24:04 debian bluetoothd[6629]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init mcp plugin
april 27 21:24:04 debian bluetoothd[6629]: profiles/audio/bap.c:bap_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
april 27 21:24:04 debian bluetoothd[6629]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init bap plugin
april 27 21:24:04 debian bluetoothd[6629]: Bluetooth management interface 1.22 initialized
april 27 21:24:04 debian bluetoothd[6629]: profiles/sap/server.c:sap_server_register() Sap driver initialization failed.
april 27 21:24:04 debian bluetoothd[6629]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)
april 27 21:24:04 debian bluetoothd[6629]: src/adv_monitor.c:btd_adv_monitor_power_down() Unexpected NULL btd_adv_monitor_manager object upon power down
april 27 21:24:16 debian bluetoothd[6629]: src/service.c:btd_service_connect() a2dp-sink profile connect failed for F8:9C:4A:D1:8D:AA: Protocol not available
april 27 21:24:27 debian bluetoothd[6629]: src/service.c:btd_service_connect() a2dp-sink profile connect failed for F8:9C:4F:D1:8D:AA: Protocol not available

Ideas?

[Aki]

Hello,
According to [1] :

a2dp-sink profile connect failed [...]: Protocol not available

This error can appear when using PipeWire as your audio server and attempting to pair a device via Bluetooth, without first uninstalling the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth package.

If you're using PulseAudio, PulseAudio may not be properly connecting to the device. It might be because it was already playing. Stopping anything playing on PulseAudio, restarting PulseAudio, and reconnecting to the device may fix the problem.

In addition, you need the following settings in /etc/pulse/default.pa or /etc/pulse/default.pa.d/bluez5.pa:

load-module module-bluez5-device
load-module module-bluez5-discover

Then restart pulseaudio.

Unfortunately, I cannot test it, but I hope that can help.

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[1] https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser/a ... _available

[Hallvor]

Fixed.

I removed pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, reinstalled pipewire, added pulseaudio-module-bluetooth again and restarted pulseaudio and bluetooth.

Thanks, Aki!

[Aki]

Happy that you sorted it out. :-)

[normalblaster]

Hello,

I am having the same issue in that all my bluetooth audio devices no longer connect now I'm using bookworm [12]. I get the same message for each device when using bluetoothctl:

[bluetooth]# connect EC:81:93:AA:26:2C
Attempting to connect to EC:81:93:AA:26:2C
Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-profile-unavailable

I have been through removal of pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, re-installation of pipewire and re-installation of pulseaudio-module-bluetooth. I have also added the load-module config in the /etc/pulse/default.pa file. Sadly this has not fixed the issue.

I've tried:
~$ pulseaudio --check
~$

which returns nothing so I assume all is well with pulseaudio.

Is there something else I need to check? Perhaps there will be a clue in dmesg but I don't know what to look for.

Many thanks for reading

John T.

[normalblaster]

Hi All,

I've fixed the issue for me. I found the clue here:

https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

In the section which reads:

For Debian 12 and newer, pipewire-audio-client-libraries is replaced by pipewire-alsa and pipewire-jack. It is recommended to install the metapackage pipewire-audio which depends on wireplumber (the recommended session manager), pipewire-pulse (to replace PulseAudio), pipewire-alsa (ALSA) and libspa-0.2-bluetooth (for Bluetooth support). Moreover, installing this metapackage will remove pulseaudio to prevent any conflicts between both sound server.

I was missing libspa-0.2-bluetooth. After I installed this:

$ su -
Password:
# apt-get install libspa-0.2-bluetooth

all started working. Two of my three bluetooth audio devices now connect and play from my xfce desktop. I still have one that connects but won't play at the moment but I'm going to leave that for another day.

Note: I did not remove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.

Thanks to everyone on this thread and I hope this fixes the issue for anyone else. I'm happy to try and answer any further questions.

John T.

[mazda1]

I was missing libspa-0.2-bluetooth. After I installed this:

$ su -
Password:
# apt-get install libspa-0.2-bluetooth

all started working. Two of my three bluetooth audio devices now connect and play from my xfce desktop. I still have one that connects but won't play at the moment but I'm going to leave that for another day.

Note: I did not remove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.

Hello ,

after upgrading from Debian 11 / Xfce to Debian 12 everything but bluetooth was working fine . I got this message : br connection profile unavalaible so I've just followed your steps and now everything's fine .
Thanks to everyone for sharing