Gnome session starts with maximum sound level

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

On Dell Inspiron 9300, Oneiric beta (all updates as of 2011/10/07) the "Ubuntu" Gnome session starts with sound volume to the max, producing a tremendously loud session opening jingle.

Lowering volume, logging out and rebooting, the problem is back (set volume isn't remembered).

This doesn't happen in KDE sessions on same machine.

(As a safeguard I would request that no opening sound should ever be produced with a volume set higher than a reasonable default... Figure a laptop with good loudspeakers opening with a TREMENDOUSLY LOUD sound in a meeting room, train, whatever...)

=> Same issue also seen on another machine (Compaq Mini)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-session 3.2.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 7 09:56:00 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-06 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bogdan Stanciu (bstanciu)]

it still happens in the final release. dell inspiron 6000, compaq evo n800

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported