This will load the bell.ogg sample for pulseaudio. My guess is that there is some disconnect between the alert settings in "Sound Preferences" and actually doing the load in gnome.
/usr/bin/pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/glass.ogg bell.ogg -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
