I compiled a new version of bluez to try help test an issue (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/880), but now bluetoothd is being disconnected from dbus. This is on a fedora 32, so the dbus is actually https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker. The bluz revision is 3146b7a0785758be2d4e894d44e99d29c0db983e. The behavior is that I can start bluetoothd with $ sudo ./src/bluetoothd -n --debug='*' -f ./src/main.conf and pulse audio with $ ./src/pulseaudio -p $(pwd)/src/ --daemonize=no -v -v -v Everything looks fine until I turn on a bluetooth device that was already paired and trusted. As far as I can tell, it connects correctly, but then the bluetoothd log shows May 10 10:18:41 raspberrypi.local bluetoothd[3127]: profiles/audio/transport.c:transport_update_playing() /org/bluez/hci0/dev_EC_81_93_4A_C7_7E/fd0 State=TRANSPORT_STATE_ACTIVE Playing=1 May 10 10:18:41 raspberrypi.local bluetoothd[3127]: Disconnected from D-Bus. Exiting. I can't quite figure out what is going on, but dbus-monitor around the time shows: signal time=1589131121.073746 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.65 serial=4294967295 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameLost string "org.bluez" signal time=1589131121.073832 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=(null destination) serial=4294967295 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.bluez" string ":1.65" string "" Which is suspicious. I have attached the full logs starting just before the bluetooth speaker is turned on. What I have checked so far * I removed the system bluez and pulse audio * I checked that ./src/bluetooth.conf has been copied to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf Any suggestions as to where I should look next? Thanks, Rafael