Login sound cannot be turned off

Thanks for your bug. It has already been opened: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9840

This bug has been fixed years ago in the Red Hat distribution, using this patch:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=72564

Upstream wonders if it is too semplicistic, but this patch should disable the fallback to the default login sound.

Thank you for pointing the patch. Upstream has a point with his comment though

This occurs in dapper.

Setting the milestone to dapper, not sure if we want to change it but we will consider both options before dapper

Please strongly consider changing it. I too am annoyingly bitten by this bug.

The bug isn't in libgnome.

The following test cases have been accounted for in this patch:

 Default login sound.
 No sound.
 Different sound.
 Different sound, not found absolute filename.
 Different sound, not found relative filename.

In the file not found conditions, the default login sound is played. In the other conditions, the expected behavior occurs.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-April/017360.html

unfortunately i have to confirm that this problem is still existing in dapper beta.

This upload fixes the issue:

 gnome-session (2.14.1-0ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/11_session_dialog.patch:
     - use "Sus_pend" label instead of "Sl_eep" (Ubuntu: #34152)
   * debian/patches/14_fix_session_delete_edit.patch:
     - upstream patch, allow to delete or edit a session (Ubuntu: #36738)
   * debian/patches/15_no_login_sound_possible.patch:
     - patch by Scott Robinson <email address hidden>
     - allow to use not login sound (Ubuntu: #3517)

Yay! Thanks!

the patch is broken as pointed by bug #43424, the default config has not startup sound with the patch but it should. If anybody wants to debug that he's welcome other way I'm going to drop the change with the next upload

Ok, give this a whirl. The issue was a result of my mis-understanding the case of a lacking gnome-2.soundlist.

Fortunately, this makes for a simpler patch. The no-sound case can only occur if it's actually specified.

Have you tried that patch? It returns "TRUE" in the case where the key is set to nothing which makes the sound play...

the patch from redhat doesn't work neither, it seems to be good only if the default system is for "no login sound"

I've used that patch with the new package, it works fine on my box. An other way would be to modify load_login_sample_from() to return an int and make a case for "key with no value" then

Are you sure about that sequence? Returning TRUE with no load should cause nothing to play. At least, that is what happens here.

Have you changed your /etc/sound/events/gnome-2.soundlist?

returning TRUE will lead to have gnome_triggers_vdo called for "gnome-2 login" which plays the sound defined by /etc/sound/events/gnome-2.soundlist on my box. I've done a small example calling gnome_triggers_vdo and the sound is played too.