Bluetooth - PC not discoverable. SOLVED! READ THIS!

Hi all,
bluetooth is really driving me crazy. My PC was not discoverable anymore, even if I had "iscan enable; pscan enable" in my hcid.conf.
To solve this issue I added the following line in the hcid.conf (device section):
discovto 0;
Now the PC is discoverable again. Hope it helps!
V.

Actually, I think I discovered the Mother of all Bluetooth problems (at least in my case). The hcid daemon, which is initiated with the /etc/rc.d/bluetooth script, depends on dbus! Problem is it does not give any error if dbus isn't running. The result is that most of the settings from /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf is not read.
Would it be a solution to add dbus as an depency in the bluetooth script and where would be the proper place to propose that?
Regards,
Nicholai

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