GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 435088
Some event sounds do not work
Last modified: 2009-01-30 12:11:40 UTC
Please describe the problem: Hi, Some event sounds do not work: while login sound does, no sound can't be hear at logout. The same happens when launching an application from the GNOME panel. Note that I get output from all the sounds when trying them from nome-sound-properties. Steps to reproduce: 1. Login 2. Listen to the login sound and enjoy 3. This was the last event sound you will hear during all your session Actual results: No event sounds can be heard except the login sound Expected results: Should hear all the event sounds Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: This bug was originally reported against the Debian package. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415216 for details.
*** Bug 435109 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi, Strange thing: the issue has been solved automatically on one of my machine. I cannot have identified any update that could have fixed this. The second machine runs the same software versions. Cheers, Julien
Julien: running /usr/bin/esd before logging-in to GNOME solves the problem. To test, just add the following line after "start)" line in "/etc/init.d/gdm": exec /usr/bin/esd -nobeeps & Alan
This might be due to the fact that DBus is started from Debian's Xsession system, and not by gnome-session. I suppose DBus is started by gnome-session for upstream folks testing jhbuild builds etc. People should try getting more information from programs trying to talk to esound but failing to do so: esound is probably refusing connection or something. Can someone also try killing programs in the session which should output sound so that they are respawned later on and see whether that help?
Hi, I can't reproduce the issue any more on my machines. I have tried changing the spawn_options to : spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as -1 and it worked. I changed it back again to spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 5 and it seems to work ok (at least for now). I have tried logging out and restarting several times. Cheers, Julien
Hi, I now suffer from this issue on a fresh install (amd64). Cheers, Julien
OK, I have managed to "fix" the issue with auto_spawn=1 in esd.conf Not sure to understand what this means, but "it works for me"® :) Cheers, Julien
This should be working fine if the libcanberra gtk module is installed in GNOME 2.24. Please reopen if that isn't the case.