Bug#709658: gnome-session-common: System beep ceased to work

[Victor Porton]

Package: gnome-session-common
Version: 3.4.2.1-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I don't know whether I file the bug for the correct package.

Since recently the system beep does not work anymore (that is it's silent).

In Bash:

$ echo $'\b'

does not produce any sound as it should.

I have not changed the Gnome system settings for sound (and checked that the
volume of the beep is not zero). So it should work, but it doesn't.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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