shutdown delay system speaker notification beep silent after upgrade from 13.1

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Hi,

After a recent upgrade from openSUSE 13.1 to 13.2, my htpc’s system speaker no longer beeps during an automated shutdown sequence initiated using cron with:

/sbin/shutdown -h +3

I have searched forums regarding this issue and most of my findings point to disabling the pcspkr to avoid beeps during bash tab completion or other application specific notification beeps. This includes using xset, blacklisting the sound module, and ~/.inputrc bell-style.

As it is very helpful to have a notification beep when a scheduled shutdown is initiated so that if we are using the htpc and want to cancel the shutdown, we are alerted to do so!

My hunch is that either /.inputrc or alsamixer will solve the issue.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

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My hunch is that either /.inputrc or alsamixer will solve the issue.

Just for fun, an update to my efforts, editing either ~/.inputrc nor /etc/inputrc to set-bell-style audible does not work, nor does adjusting beep level in alsamixer, for neither standard user nor root … arghh, maybe even try dist-upgrade to 42.1 to see if beep functionality is restored …

Cheers,
:wink:

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I’ve verified that the pcspkr module is loaded and functional by testing it from command line and getting it to beep, so the there must be a setting for /sbin/shutdown command to send signal to pcspkr …

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Looks like I found a solution – /etc/sysconfig/shutdown – edit to HALT_SOUND=“yes”