alarm will only ring for a minute and stop whether or not the user interacted with it

[Julia Palandri]

When an alarm goes off, it will ring for only a minute and after that, whether or not the user disabled it, it stays quiet forever more.
It would be interesting adding a second or even third ring after the first if the alarm was not properly disabled

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Hmm this is strange. As far as I can recollect, when an alarm goes off, it used to keep ringing and not stop until the user explicitly dismissed the alarm in the snap decision. Can you indicate which image onwards you have been seeing this issue?

[Julia Palandri (julia-palandri)]

It's present at least in #53.

[Julia Palandri (julia-palandri)]

In #85 this still happens. I set and alarm, it will ring for a minute, and then silence.

[Julia Palandri (julia-palandri)]

Still happening in #111

[Marco (jermy-07)]

Confirmed for image 106 Ubuntu 14.10

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Thanks guys. We are planning to expose a settings option in the clock app where you will be able to choose how long you want the alarm to ring before it stops. By default it will be 30 mins. But the option will vary from 15 - 60 mins I think.

[Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper)]

I'm not sure if this counts as the same issue, but I noticed rather more annoying behavior with the same approximate description.

It's not just that the alarm stops ringing after a minute... rather, the alarm continues ringing for a full minute even if the user tries to show or dismiss it. I can get rid of the snap decision about the alarm, but the sound continues... and then a few seconds later, the snap decision comes back. After a minute, the alarm stops and it stops creating new dialogs. But neither 'dismiss' nor 'show' actually stop the alarm, or appear to have any effect whatsoever except for making the dialog box close.

This was in image Utopic 124 on mako.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Marking package indicator-datetime as affected based on the comment by Selene. The snap notification must dismiss the alarm if the user pressed the dismiss button.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 13.10.0+14.10.20140716-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (13.10.0+14.10.20140716-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Charles Kerr ]
  * Set a x-canonical-snap-decisions-timeout hint for the alarm snap
    decisions. (LP: #1324580)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:23:15 +0000