Bug 208992 – mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird: Sound alert system failure

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Cyrius 2008-02-05 13:00:05 UTC]

after having configurate the properties panel of mozilla thunderbird to play an alert wav sound when a new email is arrived, nothing happened.
When clicking on "play sound", an error is raised in the error consol of thunderbird :

Erreur : uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsISound.play]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/preferences/general.js :: anonymous :: line 141"  data: no]
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use KDE
2.Use thunderbird and configure the sound system alert in general properties
3.put a wav file (the one who is attached for sample)

Actual Results:  
Error raised by thunderbird

Expected Results:  
play the wav file

Thunderbird version : version 2.0.0.9 (20071117)

Emerge --info :
Portage 2.1.4.1 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.23-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:16:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r5
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.24
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse3         -mfpmath=sse -maccumulate-outgoing-args"
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"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
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/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://atlas/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa arts audiofile avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzlib cairo cdda cdparanoia cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dell doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread encode fam ffmpeg foomatic fortran freetype gd gdbm gif gimp glibc-omitfp glitz gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde libwww lua mad matroska midi mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba sdl session slp spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 svg svga tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vmware vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wmv x86 xcomposite xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa vga vmware"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Kde version : 
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r6  USE="arts cups hal java opengl pam samba xcomposite xscreensaver -branding -debug -ieee1394 -joystick -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -ldap -lm_sensors -logitech-mouse -openexr -xinerama"

[Comment 1 Cyrius 2008-02-05 13:00:43 UTC]

Created attachment 142722 [details]
Wav file for incomming email

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-02-05 13:02:53 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 88451 ***