Bug#712601: After upgrading pulseaudio from 2.0 to 4.0 Bluetooth devices are no longer recognized

[Georg Chini]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 4.0-3
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.9.4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.5-3.1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.27.1-1
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.27-2
ii  libc6                         2.17-5
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.12-1
ii  libfftw3-single3              3.3.3-5
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.8.1-3
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.2
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.17-2
ii  libpulse0                     4.0-3
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-5
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-5
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6                    4.8.1-3
ii  libsystemd-login0             44-11
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0                      175-7.2
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.6.0-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.6.0-1
ii  libxcb1                       1.9.1-3
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.1-1+deb7u1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian12
ii  udev                          175-7.2

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3+nmu1
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     4.0-3
ii  rtkit                     0.10-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman             <none>
pn  paprefs           <none>
ii  pavucontrol       1.0-1
pn  pavumeter         <none>
ii  pulseaudio-utils  4.0-3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf changed [not included / minor changes]
/etc/pulse/default.pa changed [not included /minor changes]
/etc/pulse/system.pa changed [not included / not used]

After upgrading to pulseaudio 4.03 my bluetooth devices are no longer 
recognized by pulse.
Running pulseaudio with debug logging shows the following output in the 
log when I connect a headset:

bluetooth-util.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Device, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
module-console-kit.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Device, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
bluetooth-util.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Headset, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
bluetooth-util.c: Device /org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E 
interface org.bluez.Headset property 'State' changed to value 'connecting'
module-console-kit.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Headset, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
bluetooth-util.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Audio, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
bluetooth-util.c: Device /org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E 
interface org.bluez.Audio property 'State' changed to value 'connecting'
module-console-kit.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Audio, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
bluetooth-util.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Headset, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
bluetooth-util.c: Device /org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E 
interface org.bluez.Headset property 'State' changed to value 'connected'
module-console-kit.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Headset, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
bluetooth-util.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Headset, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged
module-console-kit.c: dbus: interface=org.bluez.Headset, 
path=/org/bluez/4382/hci1/dev_00_19_7F_41_DB_2E, member=PropertyChanged

The headset does not show up in pavucontrol or pacmd list-cards. The 
same happens for my mobiles. Manually loading module-bluetooth-device 
(with address=....) does not help. Same configuration worked fine with 2.0