*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 3517 *** Thanks Sitsofe - it looks as though you are right; and that the problem has been around for 4 years. It is difficult to find it, however, as I wouldn't have thought that the issue was in libgnome so didn't search through those bugs.
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 3517 Login sound cannot be turned off -- gnome-sound-properties: can't actually turn off the log in or log out sounds https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39125 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs