Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 160395
Unwarranted sound errors on a session startup
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:33 EDT
Description of problem: On a machine without a sound card (yes, such things do exist) on every start of a gnome-session one is accosted by the following alert: "No volume control elements and/or devices found". The only possible reaction to that can be "Doh!". On the top of this there is no timeout to this alert so it has to be explicitely closed every time. A naive assumption was that removing gnome-volume-manager from a session startup would resolve that. This turn out to be false. Also turning sound off in whatever could be found in preferences did not help. How to kill that alert, with a zero information content as sound is NOT configured, is far from obvious if at all possible. Moreover even if a required hardware would exist if I have a sound not configured then this is likely because I do _not want_ that box to make sounds. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-session-2.10.0-2 How reproducible: always - unfortunately
*** Bug 160864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
> Could you please check ... The problem is that at this moment I do not have a machine capable of running gnome-session and which would not have a sound hardware or even something not on mobo which I could remove. It is clearly something which can be checked by anybody with an suitable box around and not necessarily by me. OTOH whomever "owns" that code could have remove this misguided alert years ago, or at least provide an option to shut it up, and close that bug. Obviously it is known at that moment that "No ... devices found". Seems like a good clue.
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