Bluez5 fedora 20

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Fedora 20 includes bluez5 which is rather different from bluez4 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Bluez5) (http://lwn.net/Articles/531133/).

When I installed Fedora 20 fresh on a Dell Latitude E6440, I was unable to use bluetooth. The gnome control panel for bluetooth says no adapters are found.

discovering state

[root@servo ~]# service bluetooth status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  bluetooth.service
bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2014-01-13 09:44:07 PST; 11h ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 1064 (bluetoothd)
   Status: "Running"
   CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
           └─1064 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Jan 13 09:44:07 servo.finninday.net bluetoothd[1064]: Bluetooth daemon 5.13
Jan 13 09:44:07 servo.finninday.net systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Jan 13 09:44:07 servo.finninday.net bluetoothd[1064]: Starting SDP server
Jan 13 09:44:07 servo.finninday.net bluetoothd[1064]: Bluetooth management interface 1.3 initialized
[root@servo ~]# 
[root@servo ~]# rpm -qa | grep blue
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-4.0-9.gitf81e3.fc20.x86_64
bluez-libs-5.13-1.fc20.x86_64
bluez-5.13-1.fc20.x86_64
bluez-cups-5.13-1.fc20.x86_64
gnome-bluetooth-libs-3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64
gnome-bluetooth-3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64
[root@servo ~]# 
[root@servo ~]# hcitool dev
Devices:

Found this config file:

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf

http://padovan.org/blog/2013/06/gnome-3-get-to-knows-bluez-5/