Trying to pair JBL Tour Pro 3 earbuds results in a system crash

I really dont have much to go off of but here is what I know,

KDE pairing wizard times out and says unsucessful, about a minute or two later the entire system freezes except for the cursor, after about 10 seconds my monitors turn off and back and and the system resumes for about 2 seconds and then the system freezes completely and I have to do a hard reboot.

Information on these earbuds is pretty sparse so I was not sure what was going wrong or what I needed to install

That doesn’t sound good. FWIW, a similar earlier report…

A Manjaro thread descrbing the same…

Did you search for any existing KDE bug reports yet?

For now you could use bluetoothctl perhaps…
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth_headset#Configuration_via_CLI

The first report above, was mine. Blueman didn’t work as expected. I was hoping that only it would see the Bluetooth connection and not the KDE software, but both detected the connection, even though I paired with Blueman (which has since been uninstalled).

324 bugs mentioning Bluetooth at KDE:

https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&field0-0-1=component&field0-0-2=alias&field0-0-3=short_desc&field0-0-4=status_whiteboard&field0-0-5=content&order=bug_id%20DESC&query_format=advanced&type0-0-0=substring&type0-0-1=substring&type0-0-2=substring&type0-0-3=substring&type0-0-4=substring&type0-0-5=matches&value0-0-0=Bluetooth&value0-0-1=Bluetooth&value0-0-2=Bluetooth&value0-0-3=Bluetooth&value0-0-4=Bluetooth&value0-0-5="Bluetooth"

turns out the crash was unrelated, because when i did the same thing again nothing happened. I did get it to pair through bluetoothctl though.

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That is a good result. :slight_smile: