[gnome-bluetooth] Enabling serial rfcomm in gnome-bluetooth

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Wed Jun 10 11:04:17 CEST 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 22:37 -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
> Hey, I'm back for more.  I attached these two lines to my
> /etc/rc.local in Fedora:
> 
> -----
> rfcomm bind all
> chown [username]:root /dev/rfcomm0
> 
> -----
> 
> But, at startup, the boot log says "chown:  cannot find /dev/rfcomm0".
> 
> When I finally login, there IS a file for the rfcomm0 device in /dev,
> and chown works just fine, and then BitPim sees it.  But I can't seem
> to get chown to work as part of the rc.local.  Are device files not
> visible that early in the boot sequence?

I don't know what you have in your rfcomm.conf, but it's likely that the
rfcomm command won't have an effect straight away, and the device node
will be created by udev asynchronously. Add a sleep in there...



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