No system sounds in Gutsy beta release with errors

[andrew.46]

Hi,

 On a fresh install of the Ubuntu Gutsy beta September 28th 2007 there are no system sounds although all other sounds are working. The following error is reported in .xsession-errors :

** (x-session-manager:6760): WARNING **: Could not start esd: Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/esd" (No such file or directory)

** (x-session-manager:6760): WARNING **: Failed to start sound.

 This error was also noted in Tribe 5.

                Thanks,

                   Andrew

[Patrick Cornelissen (patrickcornelissen)]

I'm also experiencing this. I have upgraded from feisty to gutsy yesterday (Beta release day).
The soundfiles themself are ok, I can play them via the sound configuration panel. It's just that esd seems to refuse to start.
Audio is played directly via alsa. When I force to use esd it doesn't work and i get a gstreamer error message.

[Viktor (vikonkov)]

I'm experiencing the same issue. Sounds are playing fine via Sound Preferences; however, are not playing on login/logout.

[insyzygy (setthiry)]

I may not be having the same issue. I have no sound at all. Not in flash or playing wav files.
This seems to be more severe than what others are reporting

lspci -v reports

00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio (rev 01)
        Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 0183
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at f4012000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

[Tan Kah Ping (kahping)]

I too have the same issue after I upgraded Feisty to Gutsy Beta today. System sounds do not play during start & shutdown but playing mp3 or ogg music seems perfectly OK

[Onestone (onestone)]

I confirm this (clean Gutsy Beta install, currently upgraded to 2007-10-05). Esd is enabled in System -> Preferences -> Sound, but various applications can't find /usr/bin/esd. Also, startup and shutdown sounds don't play. Using ALSA directly works fine.

[mabovo (mabovo)]

I think this bug is a duplicate of bug in https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-session/+bug/129029.
Trying to run Totem got this message: "Failed to connect stream: invalid argument"
Running asoundconf-gtk in terminal Gutsy reports the following:
marcos@autoxtreme:~$ lspci -v | grep audio
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
marcos@autoxtreme:~$ asoundconf-gtk
You need at least one ALSA sound card for this to work!
marcos@autoxtreme:~$

[Tan Kah Ping (kahping)]

This is fixed for me. Haven't had this problem with upgrades, or clean installs, all the way to Lucid