Bug 698394 – net-wireless/bluez[-user-session] - /usr/libexec/bluetooth/obexd is no longer started - Activated service 'org.bluez.obex' failed: Failed to execute program org.bluez.obex: No such file or directory

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description David Flogeras 2019-10-23 15:27:13 UTC]

Something fairly recent seems to have broken send/rx files over bluetooth.  I usually use this through plasma's bluez integration.

After sniffing a bit around in the logs, I noticed when I tried to initiate a transfer from my laptop to my phone the following appeared in /var/log/messages

[session uid=1000 pid=20222] Activated service 'org.bluez.obex' failed: Failed to execute program org.bluez.obex: No such file or directory

I inspected (what I think is) the relevant file in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.bluez.obex.service and it contains the following:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.bluez.obex
Exec=@libexecdir@/obexd
SystemdService=dbus-org.bluez.obex.service

I found that if I run manually "/usr/libexec/bluetooth/obexd" that I can transfer files again.  Is it possible that @libexecdir is broken?  I don't know how to find out where this is defined.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2019-10-23 15:34:40 UTC]

What version of net-wireless/bluez?

On my system with net-wireless/bluez-5.51 installed, org.bluez.obex.service looks like this:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.bluez.obex
Exec=/bin/false
SystemdService=dbus-org.bluez.obex.service

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2019-10-23 15:48:53 UTC]

Oh, I see the ebuild is conditionally patching this file based on user-session support. I assume you have that disabled.

[Comment 3 David Flogeras 2019-10-23 16:05:20 UTC]

Yes, I'm on openrc so that is off (I assume systemd profile enabled it?)

Also, bluez-5.51

[Comment 4 Mike Gilbert 2019-10-23 16:12:10 UTC]

Oh, I thought you were running systemd based on the bug summary, but now I see that wasn't your fault.

[Comment 5 David Flogeras 2019-10-23 16:23:04 UTC]

All good.  Here's emerge --info for more clarity (from one machine, multiple are affected).

Also, I tried going back to bluez-5.50 since the obex patch changed between 5.50 and 5.51, but it didn't work either.  And yep, I did restart both bluez and dbus.

Finally, I tried changing:
Exec=@libexecdir@/obexd
to:
Exec=@libexecdir@/bluetooth/obexd

In case it was somehow a path thing, but that also didn't change the outcome.  As I said, I don't understand @libexecdir@ semantics, but thought I'd try a hail mary.



Portage 2.3.76 (python 3.6.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma, gcc-8.3.0, glibc-2.29-r2, 4.19.72-gentoo x86_64)
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[Comment 6 Sander Sweers 2019-11-03 18:16:58 UTC]

@libexecdir@ is supposed to be replaced with an actual path at build time, perhaps this has to be replaced with @pkglibexecdir@ but I don't care enough to look into it further right now.

@David, modify Exec to look like "Exec=/usr/libexec/bluetooth/obexd" and you should be good.

[Comment 7 David Flogeras 2019-11-04 13:28:12 UTC]

Sander, yep hand editing that worked for me here (after restarting related services of course).  Thanks much for the insight.

[Comment 8 Sander Sweers 2019-11-04 17:53:19 UTC]

(In reply to Sander Sweers from comment #6)
> perhaps this has to be replaced with @pkglibexecdir@

Confirmed, I modified the patch and used @pkglibexecdir@ and now the path is populated correctly again.

[Comment 9 Larry the Git Cow 2019-11-10 12:11:31 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=05557b9571baf67a4aa95401d6c441418e7a4a35

commit 05557b9571baf67a4aa95401d6c441418e7a4a35
Author:     Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2019-11-10 12:08:34 +0000
Commit:     Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2019-11-10 12:11:19 +0000

    net-wireless/bluez: Backport fixes for fast stabilization
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/698394
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.79, Repoman-2.3.18
    Signed-off-by: Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]>

 net-wireless/bluez/bluez-5.51-r2.ebuild | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 290 insertions(+)

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5dd6f073369af3d0fa1c9bb99abd9314adcd73e7

commit 5dd6f073369af3d0fa1c9bb99abd9314adcd73e7
Author:     Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2019-11-10 12:06:20 +0000
Commit:     Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2019-11-10 12:11:17 +0000

    net-wireless/bluez: Bump to 5.52
    
    Also drop obsolete patch (as systemd-m4 package is going to be removed and
    was the one causing the issue with variables quoting) and those that were
    merged by upstream.
    
    Fix patch for -user-session setups (#698394)
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/698394
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/699234
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.79, Repoman-2.3.18
    Signed-off-by: Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]>

 net-wireless/bluez/Manifest                        |   1 +
 net-wireless/bluez/bluez-5.52.ebuild               | 281 +++++++++++++++++++++
 ...xd-without-systemd-in-the-user-session-r2.patch |  58 +++++
 3 files changed, 340 insertions(+)

[Comment 10 Pacho Ramos 2019-11-10 12:12:18 UTC]

Please re-try with bluez-5.51-r2 to  fast stabilize it (it seems to install the fixed file now in my case)

[Comment 11 David Flogeras 2019-11-10 13:42:38 UTC]

Thanks Pacho, 5.51-r2 corrects the issue for me here.

[Comment 12 Pacho Ramos 2019-11-10 16:29:11 UTC]

Thanks for testing

[Comment 13 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2019-11-11 15:05:46 UTC]

arm64 stable

[Comment 14 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-11-12 10:05:32 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 15 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-11-12 10:45:51 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 16 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-11-12 13:36:19 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 17 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-11-12 18:08:40 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 18 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2019-12-02 11:00:15 UTC]

arm stable