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I upgraded from 22.04 to 22.10 a couple days ago, had some initial issues related to GDM, and now bluetooth doesn't seem to turn on - meaning I can't use my keyboard or trackpad unless over usb.

I've tried:

  • rebooting. still happens
  • turning bluetooth on from settings menu and quick settings (see screenshot) - stays stuck at off.
  • running bluetoothctl which just says Agent Registered
  • looking at can't connect any bluetooth device after updating from 22.04 to 22.10 ubuntu but their issue seemed different.
  • searching around in journalctl, can't find anything under searching 'bluetooth', is there something else to look for?

Any ideas?

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Vivek Gani
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I did have the same problem: Bluetooth audio did not work anymore after upgrade to Ubuntu 22.10.

All the suggested checks did not show any problems -- bluetooth was enabled, not blocked etc.

First note that Ubuntu 22.10 has replace the old sound server Pulseaudio with Pipewire.

Install the libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - bluetooth plugins

sudo apt install libspa-0.2-bluetooth

after that I had to restart pipewire (or do a restart)

systemctl --user restart pipewire

sources:

Andreas J
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Check if the bluetooth radio is not blocked by software/hardware switches by running rfkill

The output should be something like

$ rfkill
ID TYPE      DEVICE                   SOFT      HARD
 0 bluetooth tpacpi_bluetooth_sw unblocked unblocked
 2 wlan      phy0                unblocked unblocked
14 bluetooth hci0                unblocked unblocked

If it's soft-blocked, you should be able to unblock it with rfkill unblock bluetooth. If it's hard-blocked, look for a physical switch on your laptop.

Marius Gedminas
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While not a full answer, I ended up observing that I switched from having bluetooth issues to having Wifi issues after reinstalling Windows 10 & Linux, and resolved the wifi issues by booting into Windows then turning off Wifi then going back into Linux to turn it back on, per answer in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/724043/200022

There's a possibility this issue with bluetooth may be similarly resolved this way for anyone else running a dual-boot setup.

Vivek Gani
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Open a Terminal.

Enter "bluetoothctl"

Then enter "scan on"

Give it a minute and your bluetooth devices should now show upp in the Bluetooth Manager and you will be able to connect them. Your system should remmeber your devices on reboot.

TeamOliva
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