[gnome-bluetooth] No Bluetooth Found, Plug in a dongle to use Bluetooth

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 18:48 +0200, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> On 29 July 2016 at 16:23, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 29 July 2016 at 14:28, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> > > [...snip...]
> > > It works fine in Fedora, and I have no idea why it fails to work
> > > for
> > > you. Try the tests in the lib/ sub-directory of gnome-bluetooth,
> > > and
> > > see whether there's problems there.
> > 
> > Thanks. I'll report back if I find something interesting. (But this
> > smells like a packaging issue in NixOS and Ubuntu at the moment).
> 
> I created a new VirtualBox VM and installed
> Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24-1.2.iso (the currently recommended
> download). Then I redirected my bluetooth dongle to the VM and
> verified that "bluetoothctl" sees my device:
> 
>   [bfo at localhost ~]$ bluetoothctl
>   [NEW] Controller F4:06:69:34:AF:93 localhost.localdomain [default]
>   [bluetooth]#
> 
> But, "gnome-control-center bluetooth" doesn't see the dongle. It
> shows
> the same "No Bluetooth Found, Plug in a dongle to use Bluetooth"
> message in the GUI (and the greyed out on/off button).


Did you update after booting?
Is the adapter powered?

The output of "hciconfig hci0" should tell you.