GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 576917
[mail-notification] notification sound works for a while then stops working.
Last modified: 2010-03-30 11:24:54 UTC
Please describe the problem: When first started the email notifications sound works then after a whild it stops working. If I close evoulution and reopen it it starts working again sometimes. If I go to plugins mail notification de select sound close the window come back and reselect the sound sometimes that will work. The only way to make it work everytime I have to reboot. Steps to reproduce: 1. Just wait for it to stop working. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information: Using ubuntu intrepid 8.10 If I use mozilla thunderbird everything works fine. Don't much lik thunderbird though.
I experienced 'similar' problem. Am a recent ubuntu convert and I have been migrating my email activity into evolution. One of the problems that I have with Evolution is the mail notification sound (plugin). The selected sound wave just doesn't play (whether being tested in the configuration tab for the plug in or upon receiving new emails). My RhythmBox music plays fine. My Totem player video produces sound fine. Auto preview in Nautilus also works fine. When I run the actual wav file I selected in Nautilus, it also works well. The only thing that I noticed also went kaput (no sound comes out) is when I test/play the selected sound event Sound selection app (i.e. gnome-sound-properties). I did 'sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart' once and that seemed to fix the problem as I was getting my sounds back (both in gnome-sound-properties and Evolution mail notification). But it worked only once. Right now, I still don't have sound. What could possibly went wrong? Any clue. PS: I am using Hardy (Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic) and please tell me if I am posting on the right forum as I can't really differentiate which gets reported under ubuntu and which under gnome (at least for now).
There were some issues with gnome_sound_play function, it doesn't work on some systems. Within bug #571488 had been done migration from gnome-sound to libcanberra which is also aimed to help with this. Could you try with a version which has this included and report back, please? (When you get to the version, not necessary immediately, as it's only in a development version.)
I'm closing as duplicate of bug #571488. Dear reporter, please reopen if a more recent version of evolution does not fix your problem. Thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 571488 ***