[Solved] System boots, suddenly no bluetooth

[alalal]

A while ago, I successfully installed El Capitan 10.11.5 using Clover, on a GA-Z170N-WIFI using internal Intel HD 530 graphics by HDMI using the guide from this site here. I use the Broadcom BCM94352Z DW1560 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN + Bluetooth card, and all was fine for a while. It got upgraded to 10.11.6 and that was OK too.

Then I moved the system. I booted it up without plugging in the bluetooth antenna (doh - I didn't notice), and bluetooth didn't work - by which I mean it showed a working bluetooth icon, but wouldn't actually pair. I saw a message saying 'failed to read HID emulation devices' in the console log and assumed somehow this was a software problem, and did various things to try and fix it (upgraded Clover, ran kextbeast with what I think are the right kexts). It still showed a working bluetooth icon, but wouldn't pair. Eventually I noticed the antenna wasn't plugged in (OK, I admit it, I searched it). I then rebooted with the antenna attached. Now, most confusingly, it comes up with a bluetooth icon with a "~" through it, and the line:

05/06/2017 16:47:58.000 kernel[0]: **** [IOBluetoothFamily][SearchForTransportEventTimeOutHandler] -- Missing Bluetooth Controller Transport!

(note it is booting just fine and I can log in via screen share, so this is unlike 99% of the problems found by googling "Missing Bluetooth Controller Transport!" which appears to be the last line in a common boot failure mode)

I notice despite many tries with Kextbeast it isn't loading FakePCIID_Broadcom_WiFi.kext for some reason:

$ kextstat | egrep -i 'brcm|fake|rehab'
14 0 0xffffff7f80a80000 0x4000 0x4000 com.rehabman.driver.USBInjectAll (0.6.0) F7592522-1F6B-3114-A9D6-D306F2FEB0A8 <12 11 4 3>
15 2 0xffffff7f80c6b000 0x12000 0x12000 org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC (1707) 72772B6B-84BC-3EC7-A053-FD8B95505F76 <11 7 5 4 3 1>
49 0 0xffffff7f81a13000 0x6c2000 0x6c2000 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 (1040.1.1a6) 69A3681A-FC6C-3663-B999-9FC17F10A2BC <48 47 46 44 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>
51 0 0xffffff7f80c81000 0x8000 0x8000 org.rehabman.driver.FakePCIID (1.3.1) 98F3263E-5662-3D68-8F52-C4EE0A4406EA <12 7 5 4 3 1>
87 1 0xffffff7f80c98000 0x6000 0x6000 com.no-one.BrcmFirmwareStore (2.2.3) 269DD7F0-B54C-33F8-B560-F3125E86FBFA <5 4 3>
88 0 0xffffff7f80d15000 0x6000 0x6000 com.no-one.BrcmPatchRAM2 (2.2.3) 8AEBE114-3033-3344-A28A-711392315DAD <87 38 5 4 3 1>

I'm wondering if I actually have 2 problems and an OS upgrade caused the issue. What do I need to do to debug this further?

 

[alalal]

Very mysterious. It appears to be able to detect posts to tonymacx86.com. I swear I'd run kextbeast at least 10 times, but mysteriously running it again and a reboot resulted in the '...' across the bluetooth icon and a working mouse. So this is fixed for now.