[maemo-developers] Notification events don't produce any sound or vibration

From: Leandro Lucarella luca at llucax.com.ar
Date: Sun Dec 18 01:45:37 EET 2011 
Nicolai Hess, el 17 de diciembre a las 22:44 me escribiste:
> Hi Leandro,
> 
> can you install syslog
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/devtools/maemo5/syslog
> and post the syslog file here or in the bugreport.

This is the only message printed when an incoming message notification
fails to sound:

Dec 17 23:46:37 Nokia-N900 hildon-sv-notification-daemon[1488]: GLIB WARNING ** default - Unable to open file descriptor 'messaging_snd_title_1': No such file or directory (2)

For that incoming message, the related notification daemon dbus calls are at
the end of the e-mail (1). Note the Stop request and the that the sound file is
not a real file.

Doing an strace on hildon-sv-notification-daemon while receiving this
notification confirms that is trying to open that filei (which obviously
doesn't exist).

open("messaging_snd_title_1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)


So it seems to be more than one problem, as the alarms use a valid sound file,
and I still get no sound or vibration and no error messages are printed in the
syslog. Just these too (that look OK):

Dec 17 23:49:01 Nokia-N900 systemui-tklock[1417]: Method call received from: :1.42, iface: com.nokia.system_ui.request, method: alarm_open
Dec 17 23:49:01 Nokia-N900 systemui-tklock[1417]: Method call received from: :1.14, iface: com.nokia.system_ui.request, method: tklock_close

> Can you tried to change the alarmtone or use a file from your
> medialibrary as ringtone/alarmtone.

Yes, doesn't work for the alarm, but I just tried with IM and it worked.
What's funny is that the dbus call looks the same! (2) But this time
I don't get the syslog message.


OK. Using strace again with the working sound, I saw by chance another
problem:

1488  access("/home/user/.local/share/sounds/chat-msg_in_bg.wav.wav", F_OK) = -1 ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)
1488  access("/home/user/.local/share/sounds/chat-msg_in_bg.wav.decoded", F_OK) = -1 ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)
1488  access("/home/user/.local/share/sounds/chat-msg_in_bg_4.wav.wav", F_OK) = -1 ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)
1488  access("/home/user/.local/share/sounds/chat-msg_in_bg_4.wav.decoded", F_OK) = -1 ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)
1488  open("/usr/share/sounds/chat-msg_in_bg_4.wav", O_RDONLY) = 9

And:
# ls -ld /home/user/.local/share/sounds 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 user     users           52 Dec 10 03:21 /home/user/.local/share/sounds -> /home/user/.local/share/sounds/ringtoned/silence.wav

OK, that's totally broke, there is
a /home/user/.local/share/sounds.ringtoned though, so I changed the
symlink to point there and voila! I can use the defult IM sound again!

That directory also contained ALL the alarm sounds, AND the custom
ringtones I tried with the alarm. OK, I have a ringtoned package
installed (and I never used), so I guess is time to talk to the author
of ringtoned. What's weird is that I installed that package long ago
(Oct 30) and never had any problem and the package wasn't upgraded or
anything, so I don't know what triggered this problem.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion of installing syslogd! :)


(1) RECEIVED IM NOTIFICATION (Not working)
==========================================

method call sender=:1.24 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=1414 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify
   string ""
   uint32 0
   string "general_chat"
   string "Leandro Lucarella"
   string "d"
   array [
   ]
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "urgency"
         variant             byte 1
      )
      dict entry(
         string "vibra"
         variant             string "PatternIncomingMessage"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "sound-file"
         variant             string "messaging_snd_title_1"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "category"
         variant             string "chat-message"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "persistent"
         variant             byte 1
      )
   ]
   int32 -1
method return sender=:1.28 -> dest=:1.24 reply_serial=1414
   uint32 27
method call sender=:1.28 -> dest=com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon serial=235 path=/com/nokia/HildonSVNotificationDaemon; interface=com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon; member=PlayEvent
   array [
      dict entry(
         variant             byte 1
      )
      dict entry(
         string "vibra"
         variant             string "PatternIncomingMessage"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "sound-file"
         variant             string "messaging_snd_title_1"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "category"
         variant             string "chat-message"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "persistent"
         variant             byte 1
      )
      dict entry(
         string "time"
         variant             int64 1324162963
      )
   ]
   string ":1.24"
method call sender=:1.17 -> dest=org.maemo.Playback.Manager serial=234 path=/org/maemo/Playback/Manager; interface=org.maemo.Playback.Manager; member=RequestState
   object path "/org/maemo/playback2"
   string "Play"
   string "1488"
   string ""
method return sender=:1.3 -> dest=:1.17 reply_serial=234
   string "Play"
method return sender=:1.17 -> dest=:1.28 reply_serial=235
   int32 29
signal sender=:1.17 -> dest=(null destination) serial=236 path=/org/maemo/playback2; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Notify
   string "org.maemo.Playback"
   string "State"
   string "Play"
method call sender=:1.17 -> dest=org.maemo.Playback.Manager serial=237 path=/org/maemo/Playback/Manager; interface=org.maemo.Playback.Manager; member=RequestState
   object path "/org/maemo/playback2"
   string "Stop"
   string "1488"
   string ""
method return sender=:1.3 -> dest=:1.17 reply_serial=237
   string "Stop"
signal sender=:1.17 -> dest=(null destination) serial=238 path=/org/maemo/playback2; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Notify
   string "org.maemo.Playback"
   string "State"
   string "Stop"


(2) RECEIVED IM NOTIFICATION (working)
======================================

method call sender=:1.24 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=1547 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify
   string ""
   uint32 0
   string "general_chat"
   string "Leandro Lucarella"
   string "d"
   array [
   ]
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "urgency"
         variant             byte 1
      )
      dict entry(
         string "vibra"
         variant             string "PatternIncomingMessage"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "sound-file"
         variant             string "messaging_snd_title_1"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "category"
         variant             string "chat-message"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "persistent"
         variant             byte 1
      )
   ]
   int32 -1
method return sender=:1.28 -> dest=:1.24 reply_serial=1547
method call sender=:1.28 -> dest=com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon serial=264 path=/com/nokia/HildonSVNotificationDaemon; interface=com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon; member=PlayEvent
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "urgency"
         variant             byte 1
      )
      dict entry(
         string "vibra"
         variant             string "PatternIncomingMessage"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "sound-file"
         variant             string "messaging_snd_title_1"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "category"
         variant             string "chat-message"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "persistent"
         variant             byte 1
      )
      dict entry(
         string "time"
         variant             int64 1324163718
      )
   ]
   string ":1.24"
method call sender=:1.17 -> dest=org.maemo.Playback.Manager serial=313 path=/org/maemo/Playback/Manager; interface=org.maemo.Playback.Manager; member=RequestState
   object path "/org/maemo/playback2"
   string "Play"
   string "1488"
   string ""
method return sender=:1.3 -> dest=:1.17 reply_serial=313
   string "Play"
method return sender=:1.17 -> dest=:1.28 reply_serial=264
   int32 41
signal sender=:1.17 -> dest=(null destination) serial=315 path=/org/maemo/playback2; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Notify
   string "org.maemo.Playback"
   string "State"
   string "Play"

(2 seconds pause aprox)

method call sender=:1.17 -> dest=org.maemo.Playback.Manager serial=316 path=/org/maemo/Playback/Manager; interface=org.maemo.Playback.Manager; member=RequestState
   object path "/org/maemo/playback2"
   string "Stop"
   string "1488"
   string ""
method return sender=:1.3 -> dest=:1.17 reply_serial=316
   string "Stop"
signal sender=:1.17 -> dest=(null destination) serial=317 path=/org/maemo/playback2; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Notify
   string "org.maemo.Playback"
   string "State"
   string "Stop"


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