Error starting blueman-mechanism

[byron-hawkins]

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blueman: checkout from github, built with autoconf and no arguments BlueZ:

bluez.x86_64                                       5.56-3.el8                                                  @ol8_baseos_latest 
bluez-libs.x86_64                                  5.56-3.el8                                                  @ol8_baseos_latest 
bluez-libs-devel.x86_64                            5.56-3.el8                                                  @ol8_codeready     
bluez-obexd.x86_64                                 5.56-3.el8                                                  @ol8_baseos_latest 

Distribution: Oracle Linux 8.6

# uname -a
Linux cuivre 5.4.17-2136.307.3.5.el8uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Thu May 26 18:17:42 PDT 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Desktop environment: default gnome shipped with OL 8.6

• [X] I have consulted the Troubleshooting page and done my best effort to follow.

blueman-applet.log

[cschramm]

I guess you're having an issue with include paths. The blueman package and thus also the _blueman package seem to be installed to /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages. The D-Bus service's Exec entry, probably at /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.blueman.Mechanism.service, points to the blueman-mechanism executable and that executable has an interpreter configured in its first line. If that interpreter does not look for python packages at /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages by default, blueman-mechanism will not work.

You can use journalctl -u blueman-mechanism.service to check the service's error.

Packagers usually configure with --prefix=/usr so that search paths should be fine. To use a non-default path you'd need to modify the blueman-mechanism D-Bus service configuration (e.g. adding a PYTHONPATH environment variable), root's configuration, Python interpreter or similar.

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