[gnome-bluetooth] g-p-m reconnection issue

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:25 +0200, Per Thomas Jahr wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 10:38 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 09:20 +0200, Per Thomas Jahr wrote:
> > > Hi, me again
> > > 
> > > It seems to me that g-p-m won't detect that the bluetooth connection has
> > > been terminated. I had my device connected to g-p-m, then I took my
> > > phone to the canteen (outside of bluetooth range) and then back again to
> > > the office, but g-p-m still thinks that it is connected so it won't try
> > > to reconnect. In preferences I have turned on "Automatically retry
> > > connections".
> > > 
> > > Is there some way to make g-p-m reconnect in this case?
> > 
> > The jury is still out on whether it's a kernel bug:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.devel/14297
> > 
> > Feel free to post to the gnokii mailing-list and ask Pawel what the news
> > are on it, I guess it's fallen out of his radar.
> 
> Thanks, I will do that. Just to clarify: g-p-m should reconnect if this
> is fixed in gnokii (or in the kernel)?

It should work, although I've never actually tested it, and we might
need to make some changes on the gnome-phone-manager side of things to
make this work. But gnokii hanging means that gnome-phone-manager can't
do anything about it for now.

See also:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495278

Cheers