Bluetooth PAN (Join network on [...] grayed out)

for some strange reason without any identified order of actions or specific circumstances time to time i have an option Join network on (my phone name) grayed out. logout/login would not solve this issue, though restart solves it - i can connect again and use it ok. any ideas?

This happens for me too, and is frustrating because otherwise I would just about never have to restart my Mac.
I'm using an HTC TyTN and it seems to happen most often if it was connected to the PAN and I just let my Mac go to sleep. When it wakes up I get the dialog telling me that my connection unexpectedly ended and the "Join Network on" goes grey. A restart is the only way to cure it, stopping Bluetooth and restarting doesn't help.
Note this doesn't happen every time it falls asleep, but the odds are close to 1 in 5 and it gets me worried that I'm going to have to restart everytime I see the pulsing white light.
Powerbook G4 12" 1.5 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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Last edited by MikeH (2014-02-26 08:35:20)

MikeH wrote:
Having sorted out the (so I thought) most difficult part of setting up Bluetooth PAN networking, I am at the stage of being able to make a PAN connection from an Android phone to my Arch machine, which causes a new interface "bnep0" to appear:
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2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether c8:a0:30:ae:19:26 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: pan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default
link/ether 00:19:45:44:16:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: bnep0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master pan0 state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:19:45:44:16:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
pan0 is a "skeleton" interface created using "brctl addbr", which is then used to provide an org.bluez.NetworkServer for PAN clients to connect to.
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