Update to bluez* 5.67-1 crashes bluetooth.service if audio is played

General system EndeavourOS installation
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Sorry to be clueless, but how do I install this patch??

Thanks

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yea rebuilding package using the patch?

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You’re underestimating my cluelessness :laughing:

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You need to clone the source from github and build the source and install it.

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Thanks, to be clear future updates will just overwrite??

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Probably not, you’ll have to uninstall with sudo make uninstall in the source folder

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there is bluez-git in aur also ?

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Aha, I’d guessed as much. Probably best for me to downgrade and then wait for official update. Good learning stuff (for me) though

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I installed that but it didn’t work, don’t ask me why :person_shrugging:
I’m not very experienced in linux

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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=19319bd3e22ed7945f118bc5faf62a6380070e4a

transport: Fix crash on Transport.Acquire

This fixes crash introduced by 3030883 which caused requests not be initialized properly for A2DP. Fixes: https://github.com/bluez/bluez/issues/542

so it should get fixed soon if they will push a new release …

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bluez-git works for me :+1:

Edit:
after reboot

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I uninstalled from source, installed bluez-git then rebooted and it seems to work now.

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indeed bluez-git has the fix included already :wink:
just tested here too …

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AUR saves the day again.

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BUT

installing the git version is a workaround not the fix for the package from Repo… not recommended to change to git build.

You should not use it regularly without a good reason … there should be a fixed package soon on the arch repo.
May be a backport or bluez will release a repaired version… and the arch package will be updated inn version soon.

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You’re right! As far as I’m concerned, the “fix”, for now is to downgrade or ignore the update. I see no reason to stubbornly upgrade to the latest version just because it’s possible through git :nerd_face:

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Fixing release upstream is out arch will follow soon .

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Downgraded bluez to ver: 5.66-1 and rebooted and now Bluetooth is working. Is there any ETA on when Arch will push the fix?

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Not really. The ETA would be when the maintainer will have the time to rebuild the package.
Soon … ish.

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I had the same problem, bluetooth connection was crashing as soon as I tried to play anything.

Downgrading solved my issue

sudo downgrade bluez bluez-utils bluez-libs
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