I figured out what was different on the to machines, and boy is it lame. On the non-working machine, I had added /usr/lib/softbeep/libsoftbeep.so to /etc/ld.so.preload. Apparently, this package is not as clever as it should be at differentiating between beeps and non-beeps.
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