[HARDY] loud noise on resume [XPSM1330]

[Christophe Dumez]

I have just updated to hardy and I'm now experiencing a new bug with suspend feature (in fact when resuming after a suspend to memory). I'm using a DELL XPS M1330.

Everytime I resume after a suspend, my speakers are making a loud noise during a few seconds. Resume works but this sound is really annoying and loud. This problem appeared in Hardy.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

To be more precise, the bips (loud noise) happen only when external speakers are plugged in. The sound is coming out of the external speaker.

However, I don't think it is my external speakers' fault. Is it possible that a signal is sent on the audio jack (where the speakers are plugged in) on resuming from suspend?

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This sound was an artifact of a power management "feature" of gnome-power-manager. It would play a sound when resuming. It should no longer be present with the latest updates in Hardy.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Indeed, it looks like it is not happening anymore. Thanks :)

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

No sorry, this is still happening. It just does not happen on every resume.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

And this sound is also produced by internal speakers when external ones are not plugged in.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

GPM no longer makes any sounds on resume. This is likely to be a driver bug instead of something GPM is doing.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

I think I found the culprit: rhythmbox

This is why it does not happen everytime. It happens only if rhythmbox is running (not playing but iconified in tray).

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

I have rhythmbox 0.11.5 on Hardy

I hope that someone can reproduce it. It may not be linked to my DELL XPS at all.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

No sorry, this just happened and rythmbox was not running.

The only things I had running were Firefox3, a terminal, bluetooth and network-manager (in tray)

[Aaron Peromsik (aperomsik)]

I have the same thing after upgrading to Hardy on my M6805. As I resume I get loud beeps. Then when the screen comes back, I get the screen saver login prompt, and when I unlock the screen I get a popup in the notification area saying hibernation failed. But hibernation actually seems to work fine.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Here I have loud beeps too. However, I do not get ant popup on resume (and resume worked fine).

[lien_meat (liener-meat)]

I'm having this issue as well on an inspiron 1525. My girlfriend has the same problem on her inspiron 6400. The sound seems to be independent of what was running during the time of resume, and does also not seem to be related to the level of volume or whether or not speakers are plugged in. It seems to happen randomly. I used to get the "resume failed" message, but no longer do, and it still makes the same sound. If someone could hint as to which log files would most likely to record this issue, I'd be more than happy to try to figure out what is going on.

[Adam Lindberg (eproxus)]

I can confirm this issue on a Dell XPS M1330 running Hardy with backports and suggested.

Three or four "pc speaker"-like loud beeps upon resume, but only sometimes. Not very discreet in public places. :-/

[Ismo Aulaskari (joulusaatana)]

I can confirm this issue on a Lenovo X61s and a up to date-Hardy. Happens very often on resume after a suspend or hibernate. Four loud whines come out of the internal speakers.

Besides the resume sounds, everything else works fine.

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

I am coming from Duplicate #222390. Although I believe this is a duplicate, it definately (also) happens with the internal speakers, not just when external speakers are plugged in.

Also, it seems to be time-based: After some hours of suspend, there is a 90-100% chance that this happens, where as after a short suspend cycle it does never happen.

Please also have a look at the duplicate report, there is some logs and the like attached there.

[micha (michael-kleinschnitker)]

I have the same problem on a IBM Thinkpad T60.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Those that are encountering this, please open your power management settings and try to uncheck the box to notify with sound in the event of an error, see if this resolves the loud beeps.

Mario Limonciello
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Subject: [Bug 205925] Re: [HARDY] loud noise on resume [XPSM1330]

I have the same problem on a IBM Thinkpad T60.

** Description changed:

  I have just updated to hardy and I'm now experiencing a new bug with
  suspend feature (in fact when resuming after a suspend to memory). I'm
  using a DELL XPS M1330.

  Everytime I resume after a suspend, my speakers are making a loud noise
  during a few seconds. Resume works but this sound is really annoying and
  loud. This problem appeared in Hardy.
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+ It's the same problem on a IBM Thinkpad T60.

** Description changed:

  I have just updated to hardy and I'm now experiencing a new bug with
  suspend feature (in fact when resuming after a suspend to memory). I'm
  using a DELL XPS M1330.

  Everytime I resume after a suspend, my speakers are making a loud noise
  during a few seconds. Resume works but this sound is really annoying and
  loud. This problem appeared in Hardy.
-
- It's the same problem on a IBM Thinkpad T60.

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[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

Mario, I'll test this with the checkbox turned off.

Can you provide us with the (location of the) sound sample that is intended to be played using this option? This way, we could tell for sure if it's the sample we are hearing.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Hi Andreas:

Yes, try to play /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/gpm-suspend-failure.wav

Regards
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Mario Limonciello
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[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

Yes, that's it! Though it sounds a bit different (like 6 beeps instead of 4).

It sounds really ugly. I think it should at least be replaced by something more friendly for the ears. As I mentioned in the duplicate, it has the potential to damage one's ears, if it happens to be played through a headphone.

Maybe the option should be removed totally. What does "in event of an error" actually mean? As long as there is no textual message, the sound does not do any good.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Yes. This is definitely the sound.

However, I don't understand what the error is. Resume from suspend does work fine, even when getting this sound.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

What this sound means is that it failed to suspend or resume one or more times (but not necessarily continued to fail - it might have already been successful in the end).

I think it's a useful debugging option for debugging "long" suspend or resume times, but otherwise I agree it doesn't make sense to keep in there enabled.

[Timothy R. Chavez (timrchavez)]

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305678