Bug Description

[Impact]

Bluetooth headset/speakers are listed but not selectable in Sound settings (the correct device's options don't appear in the right pane). Hence no Bluetooth audio is unusable.

[Test Case]

1. Pair a Bluetooth audio device with Ubuntu.

2. Go to Sound settings and try to select the device.

Expected: The Bluetooth audio device is selectable (its options appear in the right pane when clicked and the selection stays on that device).

[Regression Potential]

Low. The SRU focuses on Bluetooth logic in pulseaudio, so that is the main area affected. A combination of related A2DP bugs in pulseaudio in xenial means it is difficult to get working at all without this patch. So highly unlikely Bluetooth audio support could get worse. Since pulseaudio itself is being modified there is always a regression potential in support for other audio devices, but several audio devices have been tested and all continue to work well with the patch.

[Other notes]

Related to bug 1438510 and bug 1582213. Possibly others too. The debdiff which fixes this is attached to bug 1582213.

Please note that Bluetooth and Bluetooth audio support in xenial is still not perfect. This SRU only aims to address a few of the most troublesome issues. Please consider the fact that this is an incremental improvement and some people are still likely to experience some bugs related to pulseaudio and Bluetooth, even after this SRU.

The patch was authored by Luke Yelavich with help from Konrad Zapałowicz. And it has received further testing over the past two months by Konrad, Jim Hodapp and Daniel van Vugt. The debdiff proposed here only changes the changelog wording from Luke's original PPA.

[Original Description]

Hi,

I found a bug in Ubuntu 14.04 !

I tried to pair a bluetooth stereo headset (A2DP compatible). The pairing process goes well, but after that I can't select it on the audio preferences.

When I select it, it only shows the last selected item options and don't do anything. (he should switch to the headset output).

I must mention that it worked very well on Ubuntu 12.04.

This bug can be in the bluetooth stack or in unity-control- center or maybe pulseaudio. I actually have no idea.