drum sound at login screen can't be disabled

Bug #968258 reported by Tpugliese
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Ever since upgrading to 12.04 the login screen makes the infamous drums sound again. This has been an issue on and off going back at least to 9.04 but I somehow had figured out how to disable it. Now it is back and there isn't straightforward way to turn it off.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lightdm 1.1.9-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.3.0 i686
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 29 08:44:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-19 (38 days ago)

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Tpugliese (thomas-pugliese) wrote :
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Gregor Riepl (onitake) wrote :

The easy (but probably non-permanent) solution is to just remove the sound file, as outlined in http://askubuntu.com/questions/66786/how-to-disable-login-sound/66788#66788

Punch this into your shell:
sudo mv /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready{,-disabled}.ogg

A nice checkbox somewhere would make a lot more sense though.

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