startup sound (the drum) just dissapeared

[Jon Forsberg]

Binary package hint: gdm

Acer Aspire One B250

The startup sound that plays at boot when the login screen appears just stopped playing a few weeks back. I cant see what I did to make it so and I cant get it to work again. I havent really changed any sound related preferences or anything. "Play login sound" (my translation from swedish) is enabled in the gdm/login screen preferences.

Here is the maybe relevant gconf settings:

 /apps/gdm/simple-greeter:
  disable_user_list = false
  banner_message_enable = false
  disable_restart_buttons = false
  banner_message_text =
  banner_message_text_nochooser =
  recent-layouts = []
  recent-languages = []
  wm_use_compiz = false
  logo_icon_name = computer
  /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins:
   /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard:
    priority = 7
    active = true
   /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/xsettings:
    priority = 2
    active = true
   /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/media-keys:
    priority = 20
    active = false
   /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/background:
    priority = 5
    active = true
   /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/sound:
    priority = 3
    active = true
   /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/xrandr:
    priority = 1
    active = true
  /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/accessibility:
   screen_magnifier_enabled = false
   screen_keyboard_enabled = false
   screen_reader_enabled = false

Also, I noticed that /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="SOMETHING" doesnt work either, where SOMETHING is for example "system-ready" or "bell" or "desktop-login" . It looks like its playing a sound but no sound comes out of the speakers. Dont know if its related.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gdm 2.30.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 26 11:07:14 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=sv_SE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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