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[Bug 675918] Re: Login sound plays when 'Play login sound' is un-checked

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From: Hans Joachim Desserud <675918@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:00:53 -0000
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Title:
  Login sound plays when 'Play login sound' is un-checked

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gdm

  Bug appears to be due to the GUI representing the wrong default value.
  If there is no gconf key set for /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds the
  'System -> Administration -> Login Screen' shows 'Play Login Sound'
  unchecked, but gconf reports true for the value.

  To reproduce:

    # Unset the config key
    $ sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --unset /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds

    # gconf will now report true by default
    $ sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds
    true

    # However the call used by the ubuntu patched GDM will return 'no value'
    $ sudo gconftool-2 --direct -g /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds --config-source=xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf
    No value set for `/desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds'

    # Opening the 'System -> Administration -> Login Screen' will show
  'Play Login Sound' as false

  The file debian/patches/09_gdmserver_gconf_settings.patch contains the
  erroneous code, I'm afraid I don't really understand well enough
  what's going on there to provide a patch. I suspect that it's the
  default fall through value of false from
  gdm_settings_get_bool_gconf_value()

  As a quick fix for users, simply checking and then unchecking the
  'Play Login Sound' checkbox in the GUI will explicitly set the value
  to false, and the login drum sound should be disabled.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gdm 2.30.5-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Nov 16 22:25:35 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_NZ.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gdm

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