No startup/login sound logout/shutdown sound cutoff

Question

I am using Gnome and alsa/esd for sound events.  My problem is that the startup sounds do not play while the gnome splashscreen is opening (or ever) and the shutdown/logoff sound gets cut off (apparently as alsa/esd shuts down).  Is there a way to help them play.
This is obviously not a critical issue, but it does take away some of the polish of the arch experience.
All other sound events play (menus, commands, toggles, email, etc.)
I am up to date on all packages, but this has been a problem over the last six months (ie since I began using Arch).

Answer 1

coiote wrote:
biloky wrote:
The patch suggested by azleifel works. I can now hear my gnome login and logout sounds.
Thanks azleifel
coiote, what errors did you encounter while building the package?
hi, The message is this:
[luka@arch Desktop]$ makepkg -c PKGBUILD
PKGBUILD: line 1: ---: command not found
==> ERRO: An unknown error has occured. Exiting...
thanks
Sorry if this is a silly comment but what I posted was a patch for the gnome-session PKGBUILD.  It isn't the complete PKGBUILD I used, which was:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.42 2008/01/10 20:03:09 jgc Exp $
# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <[email protected]>
pkgname=gnome-session
pkgver=2.20.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The GNOME Session Handler"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('GPL' 'LGPL')
depends=('tcp_wrappers' 'libgnomeui>=2.20.1' 'gnome-control-center>=2.20.3' 'at-spi>=1.20.1')
makedepends=('perlxml' 'pkgconfig')
options=(!emptydirs)
install=gnome-session.install
url="http://www.gnome.org"
groups=('gnome')
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/${pkgname}/2.20/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
gsm-dbus.patch
gnome-session-2.20-esd.patch
gnome.desktop)
md5sums=('f9d80e12c8fd79efa9786f617ba18bc7' '80f38a9a76938d08e6437fea24c841b3'
'3e95954af94cf557624b8fdbef62d44b' '152cddde06e16f16641746467f7ff965')
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
patch -Np1 -i ${startdir}/src/gsm-dbus.patch || return 1
patch -Np1 -i ${startdir}/src/gnome-session-2.20-esd.patch || return 1
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
--with-reboot-command=reboot --with-halt-command=halt \
--with-rsh-command=ssh \
--with-at-spi-registryd-directory=/usr/lib/at-spi
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1 install
install -d -m755 ${startdir}/pkg/etc/X11/sessions
install -m644 ${startdir}/src/gnome.desktop ${startdir}/pkg/etc/X11/sessions/gnome.desktop
mkdir -p ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/gconf/schemas
gconf-merge-schema ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas ${startdir}/pkg/etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas
rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas