Bug 506732

Summary:	"System Sounds" volume setting "breaks" or "lowers" all sound levels
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tom London <selinux>
Component:	libcanberra	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tom London 2009-06-18 14:15:26 UTC

Description of problem:
I noticed that each time I logged in, the volume setting was being reset to 0% (i.e., I was getting a red x on the volume applet).  Setting this to something more reasonable, say 100%, would restore sound to the current session, but it would return to 0% the next time I logged in.

After "fiddling" for a while, I noticed that I also had "lost" the "system start" sound on login.

I changed the setting for "sound effects" to something other than 0%, logged out and back in, and I got both the "system start" sound as well as a non-zero volume level for my apps.

In addition, I noticed that if the sound effects level was set to something other than 100%, each time I logged in, the system sound level got lower and lower (83% the first time, about 65% the second, ...)

Is there some "deadly dance" here?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libcanberra-0.12-2.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

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Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2009-07-01 12:20:43 UTC

Does this still happen with PA 0.9.15-14?

Comment 2 Tom London 2009-07-01 21:51:18 UTC

Yes, this is still broken with:

pulseaudio-utils-0.9.16-1.test1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.16-1.test1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.16-1.test1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.16-1.test1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-0.9.16-1.test1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-debuginfo-0.9.16-1.test1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.16-1.test1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.16-1.test1.fc12.x86_64


Here is how I tested this:

1. I had my "usual" setup with the system-wide volume set at 95% and the "Alert Volume" slider set at 100%.
2. Logging in plays a nice loud "login sound", and the system-wide volume (as displayed by putting the cursor over the volume applet) remains at 95%.
3. I reset the "Alert Volume" slider to about 50% and reboot.
4. Logging in again, I get a much quieter "login sound", and the system-wide volume now says 45%.

I'm guessing, but it appears that some code is multiplying the system-side volume with the "Alert Sound" setting percentage and getting 45%.

Comment 3 Tom London 2009-07-01 21:52:15 UTC

Sorry, adding libcanberra version:

libcanberra-0.13-1.fc12.x86_64
libcanberra-gtk2-0.13-1.fc12.x86_64
libcanberra-debuginfo-0.13-1.fc12.x86_64

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2009-07-09 04:38:30 UTC

This is actuall a libvorbis bug, it seems

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 505610 ***