Bug#805345: gnome-bluetooth: bluetooth softblocked even after toggling switch to on

[Sean L]

Package: gnome-bluetooth
Version: 3.18.1-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

I upgraded to gnome-bluetooth 3.18.X and it has persisted ever since.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Every time I toggle bluetooth off through the GUI (or applet), it soft-blocks my
sony-bluetooth switch (as it should) and removes the hci0 switch. But, when I
turn it on, it un-soft-blocks sony-bluetooth and creates the hci0 switch
properly, but that switch is soft-blocked still. This switch should be
un-soft-blocked when I toggle the bluetooth to the "on" position as well. Since
it stays soft-blocked, It then shows remembered bluetooth devices (and the
toggle appears in the "on" position), but attempting to connect to a remembered
device fails immediately (clicking the toggle does nothing). Therefore, I have
to manually issue a "sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth" from the terminal. Once I
have done that, bluetooth works as desired... until I toggle off and on again,
in which case, rinse and repeat!

I can issue a "sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth" every time I toggle my bluetooth
on through the GUI menu to effectively fix the problem. But, this is not how the
package should work.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (450, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3-0.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-bluetooth depends on:
ii  bluez                 5.36-1
ii  bluez-obexd           5.36-1
ii  libatk1.0-0           2.18.0-1
ii  libc6                 2.19-22
ii  libcairo-gobject2     1.14.4-1
ii  libcairo2             1.14.4-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0    0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra0          0.30-2.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0    2.32.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.46.2-1
ii  libgnome-bluetooth13  3.18.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0            3.18.2-1
ii  libnotify4            0.7.6-2
ii  libpam-systemd        227-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0        1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0   1.38.1-1
ii  libudev1              227-2
ii  libx11-6              2:1.6.3-1
ii  udev                  227-2

Versions of packages gnome-bluetooth recommends:
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.18.2-1
ii  gvfs-backends         1.26.2-1

Versions of packages gnome-bluetooth suggests:
ii  gnome-user-share  3.18.0-1

-- no debconf information