After upgrading to xterm-242 my bell no longer works. Other X11 applications such as xclock still sound the bell. The xterm visual bell stil works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type CTRL-G to bash running in xterm-242 window 2. 3. Actual Results: No audible beep! ted@tamma$ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8-tamma-042 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-tamma-042-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.70GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:45:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4m -Os -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4m -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ " LANG="en_GB" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_GB" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi alsa audiofile bash-completion berkdb binfilter bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps chardet cli cracklib crypt curl cvs dbus doc dri dssi dts dv dvd emacs encode ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran ftp gdbm gif glib gnutls gpm graphviz gs gtk gtkhtml hal ibmacpi iconv id3tag imagemagick imlib isdnlog jack jack-tmpfs jackmidi java jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea ladspa lame laptop lash latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate lirc live logrotate lzo mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mng modplug motif mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap musepack nas ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcap pcmcia pcre pdf perl plotutils png pppd python qhull qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection regex rle sdl session sndfile sox spell spl sse ssl subversion svg sysfs tcl tcpd tetex theora tiff timidity tivo tk truetype type1 unicode usb utempter vcd vidix vorbis wifi wma wxwindows x264 x86 xemacs xinetd xml xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 intel8x0m" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" LIRC_DEVICES="all" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is fixed in #243...
yep.. 243 is in portage now.. I guess it's this modification: remove check on bell-percentage added in patch #242, which disallowed zero/negative values (Redhat Bugzilla #487829).
