After a reboot, sound was broken after logging in again. Turning event_sounds off and logging out and back in fixed the problem again. Also, I ran gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds before I did any mucking about and it was set to true.
After a reboot, sound was broken after logging in again. Turning event_sounds off and logging out and back in fixed the problem again. Also, I ran gconftool-2 -g /desktop/ gnome/sound/ event_sounds before I did any mucking about and it was set to true.