Bug#614893: sysvinit: shutdown creates a beep with standard shutdown message

[Andreas Fackler]

Is there any reason to keep the beep? For anything but server installations 
this is really annoying, so I would opt for just removing it completely (see 
attached patch).
Index: sysvinit-2.88dsf/src/dowall.c
===
--- sysvinit-2.88dsf.orig/src/dowall.c	2010-03-19 17:53:57.0 +0100
+++ sysvinit-2.88dsf/src/dowall.c	2013-03-09 12:34:24.063049182 +0100
@@ -190,11 +190,11 @@
 	
 	if (remote) {
 		snprintf(line, sizeof(line),
-			"\007\r\nRemote broadcast message (%s):\r\n\r\n",
+			"\r\nRemote broadcast message (%s):\r\n\r\n",
 			date);
 	} else {
 		snprintf(line, sizeof(line),
-			"\007\r\nBroadcast message from %s@%s %s(%s):\r\n\r\n",
+			"\r\nBroadcast message from %s@%s %s(%s):\r\n\r\n",
 			user, hostname, tty, date);
 	}
 

Bug#614893: sysvinit: shutdown creates a beep with standard shutdown message

[Nathan Todd]

I agree with the sentiments stated previously.  This beep is highly
annoying and should, at least, be configurable.  I'm running Debian on a
laptop, and I find this beep to be obscenely annoying when using my
laptop in a public environment.




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Bug#614893: sysvinit: shutdown creates a beep with standard shutdown message

[Bertrand Marc]

Hi,

I also find this beep very inconvenient and totally agree with Andreas
on this point.

It has been almost a year, are there any progress on making this beep
disappear ? Is there any justification for this beep ?

I don't consider removing the pcspkr module a fix, since it disables
any system beep.

Regards,
Bertrand



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Bug#614893: sysvinit: shutdown creates a beep with standard shutdown message

[Andreas Tepe]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-13
Severity: normal


The shutdown command prints a shutdown message to the (any) console. This
message includes the ascii character 0x07 and creates a system beep. I have
at least two computers where I cannot mute this beep. It will also happen
when shutting down the computer using e.g. gnome.

Because this beep is very loud and very inconvenient I consider it a bug and
not a wish. I can barely see any use for it and it does not seem to increase
the security level. Especially on my laptop I had trouble when I wanted to
shut it down in a public environment.

Currently, I have to manually change the letter in the compiled binary with
a hex editor to remove the beep.

Thanks for your help!

Kind Regards,
Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts   2.88dsf-13 scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6 2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsepol1 2.0.41-1   SELinux library for manipulating b
ii  sysv-rc   2.88dsf-13 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils2.88dsf-13 System-V-like utilities

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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