Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

start-pulseaudio-x11 tries to load /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg which is missing in Kubuntu

Bug #1703334 reported by Petr Sedlacek
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Daniel van Vugt
Nominated for Artful by Rik Mills
Nominated for Zesty by Rik Mills

Bug Description

The script /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 contains the line

/usr/bin/pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg bell.ogg > /dev/null

However, the file /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg wasn't present in my Kubuntu 17.04 installation. It's part of the package ubuntu-sounds that apparently isn't installed in Kubuntu by default (no wonder, the description says "Ubuntu's GNOME audio theme").

Since the script is run with sh -e it stops at the first failure and therefore pulseaudio is not initialized correctly (for example, module-device-manager isn't loaded which prevents configuration of device preferences).

To me this sounds like a missing dependency of the pulseaudio package on ubuntu-sounds package.

System information:
Kubuntu 17.04
pulseaudio version 1:10.0-1ubuntu2

Expected behaviour: script /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 runs correctly and properly initializes pulseaudio

Actual behaviour: script doesn't run correctly and therefore pulseaudio isn't initialized properly.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Good timing. I was looking at finalizing the contents of the next pulseaudio update today. I'll fix this too.

summary: start-pulseaudio-x11 tries to load
- /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg which is missing
+ /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg which is missing in Kubuntu
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
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Petr Sedlacek (piit79) wrote :

Awesome, thanks! Haven't had time to test yet if this also fixes https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/1684108 but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/pulseaudio/commit/?h=ubuntu&id=09610896c91d30ca101392b1522b4cc8fd0507dd

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Also available for early testing:
https://launchpad.net/~vanvugt/+archive/ubuntu/pulseaudio

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José Tomás Atria (jtatria) wrote :

I can confirm that installing ubuntu-sounds fixes the issue reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/1684108

I have to ask though, is adding an extra dependency on a GNOME package the correct solution for Kubuntu? Isn't there some desktop-agnostic way of referring to system sound files that would be preferable for KDE users?

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José Tomás Atria (jtatria) wrote :

Ah, disregard the question in my last comment, I just saw that daniel's commit checks for the existence of the missing file instead of adding a dependency to ubuntu-sounds.

Thanks for taking the time to fix this!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:10.0-2ubuntu1

---------------
pulseaudio (1:10.0-2ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * Cherrypick fixes for common crashes from upstream:
    - cb78d6f5: SIGABRT in device_start_waiting_for_profiles (LP: #1690028,
      LP: #1672171)
    - d985276c: SIGABRT in pa_alsa_path_set_volume (LP: #1539209, LP: #1562817)
  * Enable modules that needn't be disabled:
    - module-role-cork: Now enabled per upstream defaults (LP: #1701688)
    - module-switch-on-connect: Enabled for seamless hotplugging (LP: #1702794)
  * Don't try to load sounds that don't exist in Kubuntu (LP: #1703334)
  * Merge latest debian changes (see below).

 -- Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:57:16 +0800

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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