pulseaudio should not load module-x11-bell in gnome-shell

Thank you for your bug report, indeed that line is an old Ubuntu diff and should probably be removed, I'm going to do that in the next upload

The request makes sense but I wonder if you saw any user visible impact? Trying on a recent disco installation, using the 'beep' command or press tab on a command line reflect the sound selected in gnome-control-center -> sound

Could you provide the details asked in the previous comment?

Sorry for the late answer.

In my case, the sound was the correct one, but it was played twice at the same time, causing some unpleasant saturation.

Furthermore, if I changed the sound in the Gnome control panel, than I would have two different sounds playing at the same time (the newly configure Gnome sound, plus the old one, played by module-x11-bell).

That being said, I have not tried it on a fresh disco install. Mine was installed a year ago, and upgraded to disco... It took me that much time to investigate the problem and report it ;-)

Thanks, I can't confirm those problems but the patch seems indeed a distro divergence we don't need, remove it now in the packaging vcs
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/pulseaudio/commit/?id=227d3ade

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:12.2-2ubuntu4

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pulseaudio (1:12.2-2ubuntu4) eoan; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0006-load-module-x11-bell.patch:
    - remove that old distro patch, it's undocumented, not needed since
      GNOME handles the login sound by itself and create issues in some
      cases (duplicate sound, not respecting the UI choice)
      (lp: #1827842)

  [ Hui Wang ]
  * d/p/0800-stream-restore-Don-t-restore-if-the-active_port-is-P.patch:
    - Don't restore the streams to sinks/sources with only unavailable ports
      (LP: #1834138)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:45:10 +0200

Hello Pierre-Antoine, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pulseaudio into disco-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/1:12.2-2ubuntu3.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-disco to verification-done-disco. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-disco. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

The fix for this bug has been awaiting testing feedback in the -proposed repository for disco for more than 90 days. Please test this fix and update the bug appropriately with the results. In the event that the fix for this bug is still not verified 15 days from now, the package will be removed from the -proposed repository.

Sorry (again) for the late reply.

I just got an opportunity to install a fresh ubuntu 19.04, so I thought I would give a try to the patch... But on this fresh install, I do not have the problem... (without even enabling proposed packaged).

I don't even understand *why* the x11-bell module is *not* loaded...
(I did install the ubuntu-sounds package, as this is a condition in start-pulseaudio-x11).

1:12.2-2ubuntu3.1 is working fine and not creating regressions, even if the bug seems to not happen on every install which makes the fix harder to verify the change is right on principle, marking as verified

Yeah, I guess this will have to do it for the verification. Please be sure to re-open the bug in case someone reports the issue as not being fixed in the end.

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:12.2-2ubuntu3.1

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pulseaudio (1:12.2-2ubuntu3.1) disco; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0006-load-module-x11-bell.patch:
    - remove that old distro patch, it's undocumented, not needed since
      GNOME handles the login sound by itself and create issues in some
      cases (duplicate sound, not respecting the UI choice)
      (lp: #1827842)

  [ Hui Wang ]
  * d/p/0800-stream-restore-Don-t-restore-if-the-active_port-is-P.patch:
    - Don't restore the streams to sinks/sources with only unavailable ports
      (LP: #1834138)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:45:10 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for pulseaudio has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.