Hello all,

I have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard which I would like to start up when my slack machine boots. I chmod +x to /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth and started hcid, sdpd, and hidd. The others, rfcomm, pand and dund I left off (as I have no use for them).

The problem is rc.bluetooth start spits out an error: Can't listen on HID control channel: Address already in use. If I restart it after boot (or use rc.local to do it) it works fine. If I start it and then start it again, the same error is displayed.

Does anyone know how I can fix this, without having to start, stop, then restart my bluetooth control?

When you make rc.bluetooth executable it will start up during bootup, ff you then login and try to start it manually, you will get an error (because it is already running).

If you need to restart the service to get your hardware working for some reason, then you could put a restart command in rc.local. But if memory serves, BlueTooth is started pretty close to rc.local anyway, so it might not give things enough time to settle down.

I'm not trying to start it manually after startup, I was saying the same error occurs if I do that.

I have the restart command in my rc.local, and that works, but I am wanting to fix the problem, not just cover it up

I had it working before I reinstalled (new hard drive)

I turned off starting of sdpd by rc.bluetooth and this stops the error, and my mouse and keyboard are working fine now.

Does anyone know why this error happened? Could sdpd be starting up elsewhere perhaps??