at some point we need to release Subsurface 4.5

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Aug 27 09:29:27 PDT 2015


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 07:12:12PM +0300, Claudiu Olteanu wrote:
> > OK, deleting the plist file, shutting the system down and restarting
> > worked. BT is alive and well again. Here's what Subsurface reports:
> >
> > "The local Bluetooth adapter cannot be accessed."
> >
> > So this indicated that in
> > BtDeviceSelectionDialog::updateLocalDeviceInformation()
> > localDevice->isValid() returns false...
> >
> > So QtBT isn't finding any devices. Any suggestions how to debug that?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have any idea how Bluetooth works on OSx.
> I encountered the same problem on Linux when the libqt5-qtconnectivity
> library
> was missing or when the BlueZ driver wasn't installed correctly.

Hmm - my binary is linked against QtBluetooth but there doesn't even
appear to BE a QtConnectivity in Qt on my Mac...

In the meantime I fixed a crash on exit if there is no working adapter
found. Tiny details :-)

> The Qt framework couldn't communicate with the driver via D-Bus and
> localDevice->isValid() was always returning FALSE.

That would make sense. I need to do some googling to figure out how this
is supposed to work and if I maybe need to install something else...

> Maybe Thiago has any suggestions or we could start talking
> with Alex, the maintainer of QtBluetooth module.

Yes, please. Thiago?

/D


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