chimeraos Bluetooth service fails to init on boot (gamepad ui) (v33)

Current behavior: After navigating to Settings > Bluetooth in the gamepadui, the top-level Bluetooth toggle is greyed out and disabled, preventing search and pairing of Bluetooth devices. SSH'ing into the system and running journalctl reveals the following relevant information, logged at boot:

Jun 10 14:08:04 chimeraos systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Jun 10 14:08:04 chimeraos systemd[550]: bluetooth.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/bluetooth: No such file or directory
Jun 10 14:08:04 chimeraos systemd[550]: bluetooth.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd: No such file or directory
Jun 10 14:08:04 chimeraos systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE
Jun 10 14:08:04 chimeraos systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

This behavior persists upon re-flashing the install media w/ a fresh copy of the ChimeraOS installer and re-installing the operating system to the boot drive.

Expected behavior: Navigating to Settings > Bluetooth reveals a working Bluetooth toggle.

Steps to reproduce:

$ chimera-session gamepadui
Navigate to Steam > Settings > Bluetooth; observe the disabled toggle

Hardware specs: Computer: Minisforum HM90 Processor: Ryzen 9 4900H Graphics: Vega 8 Wireless/BT card: Mediatek MT7921k

Jun 11 '22 00:06 rhythmerc

Possible workaround:

sudo /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
ctrl+c
sudo systemctl start bluetooth
reboot

Jun 11 '22 01:06 pastaq

@pastaq I can confirm that your workaround was successful on my machine!

Jun 11 '22 01:06 rhythmerc

How can that work around work if /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd does not exist?

Jun 11 '22 11:06 alkazar

Not sure. Looking into it, it seems like it was a bluez issue affecting users on other OS's. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274969 https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/bluetooth-not-starting/25138/3 https://superuser.com/questions/1716226/failed-to-start-bluetooth-service

It was patched for 5.64-2: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/ec96253dff1d9892879cd4682840817fff817236

Jun 11 '22 14:06 pastaq

I have to fight with this from time to time. Havent tried upgrading bluez yet. Might give it a go. @alkazar Any idea when a new release will be published?

Jul 28 '22 14:07 200Puls

New release is out now, but it seems to be a mixed bag for bluetooth. For some bluetooth works, for others, it does not.

Aug 09 '22 23:08 alkazar