bluetooth-manager doesn't find devices

Hello.

I compiled and installed gnome-bluetooth on a slackware 13.37 machine
that doesn't use gnome.

When I start bluetooth-manager, it keeps searching forever for
devices, even though I can see them and connect to them with blueman
(but blueman seems unsupported now...), bot as a user or as root.

I think there is a misconfiguration somewhere, how can I find it? Does
bluetooth-manager rely on modification in policy files?

Thanks.

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F. Delente