bluez-5.43: symlink needed for sending files through bluez when dbus+user-session is used

bluez-5.43: symlink needed for sending files through bluez when dbus+user-session is used

[Pacho Ramos]

This is an issue we are hitting in Gentoo for a long time:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577842

Only when dbus is compiled with user-session support. It seems
ArchLinux is also suffering this bug:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45816

In summary, if we don't manually do this link:
ln -fs /usr/lib/systemd/user/obex.service /usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-
org.bluez.obex.service

systemd cannot launch obexd when needed and, hence, sending files fails
silently (as opposed to dbus without user-session, that was able to
launch obexd when needed).

Then, I am not sure if this link should be provided always or if we
have something missing in bluez.service file that, even enabling it, is
not enough for "fully" enabling bluetooth (as it seems obexd is not
handled at all)

Thanks a lot for your help

Re: bluez-5.43: symlink needed for sending files through bluez when dbus+user-session is used

[Pacho Ramos]

El lun, 05-12-2016 a las 19:02 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> This is an issue we are hitting in Gentoo for a long time:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577842
> 
> Only when dbus is compiled with user-session support. It seems
> ArchLinux is also suffering this bug:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45816
> 
> In summary, if we don't manually do this link:
> ln -fs /usr/lib/systemd/user/obex.service /usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-
> org.bluez.obex.service
> 
> systemd cannot launch obexd when needed and, hence, sending files
> fails
> silently (as opposed to dbus without user-session, that was able to
> launch obexd when needed).
> 
> Then, I am not sure if this link should be provided always or if we
> have something missing in bluez.service file that, even enabling it,
> is
> not enough for "fully" enabling bluetooth (as it seems obexd is not
> handled at all)
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help

And ever more instances of the problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318441
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389347 (this points to
gnome-control-center... but the issue is more deep as other packages
like bluedevil and likely anything willing to send files would be
affected too)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804908