[Bug 896769] [NEW] Unable to pair bluetooth mouse (11.10 regression)

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Public bug reported:

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 11.10                                                                                     
Release:        11.10 

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
$ apt-cache policy bluez
bluez:
  Installed: 4.96-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 4.96-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 4.96-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.96-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages

3) What you expected to happen
When I start pairing mode on my bluetooth mouse, Bluedevil pops up a notification. When I click trust and authorise, the mouse should connect to bluetoothd as it did in 11.04.

4) What happened instead
Instead an error appears in syslog:

27/11/11 11:25:42	hpeb	bluetoothd[1287]	Refusing input device connect: No such file or directory (2)
27/11/11 11:25:52	hpeb	bluetoothd[1287]	Agent replied with an error: org.bluez.Error.Canceled, Authorization canceled
27/11/11 11:25:52	hpeb	bluetoothd[1287]	Access denied: Authorization canceled
27/11/11 11:30:09	hpeb	bluetoothd[1287]	Refusing input device connect: No such file or directory (2)

Note that I also had this issue in Debian Sid/Wheezy, so it appears to be an issue in bluez upstream:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642104

Also the bug appears to have been encountered by at least one other person using 11.10:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1840650

** Affects: bluez (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: bluez (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #642104
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642104

** Also affects: bluez (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642104
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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  Unable to pair bluetooth mouse (11.10 regression)

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