No Sounds Theme ignores its own name and does still play sounds

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

After a few embarrassed library moments I have disabled sound for my laptop by selecting my sound theme as "No sounds". In some programmers infinite wisdom however it has been decided that I still need to hear an irritating little drum role when the login window appears.

As a side note:
It also used to be easy in the past to set sounds for individual events but I were not able to find it. I blame Ubuntu and lack of morning coffee, in no particular order.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.24+dfsg-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC861-VD Analog [ALC861-VD Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC861-VD Analog [ALC861-VD Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: gertjie 1587 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xdc440000 irq 44'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC861-VD'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0862,1179010e,00100001 HDA:11c11040,11790001,00100200'
   Controls : 19
   Simple ctrls : 12
Date: Fri Jun 17 09:18:32 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:Intel successful
Symptom_Card: Internal Audio - HDA Intel
Symptom_PulsePlaybackTest: PulseAudio playback test successful
Symptom_Type: None of the above
Title: [HDA-Intel - HDA Intel, playback] Playback problem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/26/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: V1.30
dmi.board.name: ISRAE
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: 1.00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: *
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV1.30:bd03/26/2007:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteP200:pvrPSPB0E-015003EN:rvnTOSHIBA:rnISRAE:rvr1.00:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Satellite P200
dmi.product.version: PSPB0E-015003EN
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Thijs van Dijk (ametheus-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better.
I must ask you, however, to be careful when uttering semi-sarcastic statements like "some programmers infinite wisdom". Though I, personally, can retrace your original intent to some level, others might not recognize this as a joke, and will perceive this comment as abrasive.

As for the sound of drums, did you untick the "play login sound" box in the "login screen" window of the system settings dialog?

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis (gerhardus-geldenhuis)]

Hi Thijs,
Thank you for the update.
In all honesty my comment was not intended as a joke. I were at the time very irritated by the sound playing after I have selected the theme "no sound". I apologise for the comment and have endeavoured to keep my bug reports factual which I normally do.

I have not unticked anything else, other than select the sound theme. If I have to untick that box in addition to selecting a no sounds theme I would consider that as a bug and if not at the very least completely unintuitive. I am unable to confirm that unticking the box will resolve my issue as I am currently in the middle of a lot of work, but when I get a chance I will look into it further and confirm.

[Thijs van Dijk (ametheus-deactivatedaccount)]

I would agree that this is currently counter-intuitive, yes.
I've created a separate bug to address this design issue, bug 814024. If the drums still play even after unticking "play login sound", feel free to reopen this issue.

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis (gerhardus-geldenhuis)]

Hi Thijs
I have checked this morning and the "Play Login Sound" checkbox is indeed disabled but it still plays the sound. I double checked to be sure. I will check it a bit later today log out and the uncheck it again to see if perhaps it lost its state somewhere.

Regards

[Thijs van Dijk (ametheus-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for reporting back.
If the drums still sound after a reboot, we have an actual problem in gdm on our hands. Otherwise, it's just an undocumented oddity.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 675918, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.