I've been running Kubuntu 11.10 for a while now and I didn't have this problem until I installed cheese. That required a bunch of packages. I'm wondering if one of those packages didn't do something to emacs. As the OP mentioned the solution is to install libcanberra-gtk-module.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacs23 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870674 Title: dependency chain of emacs23 should contain libcanberra-gtk-module Status in “emacs23” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am pretty sure that this bug does not belong to emacs, but that it where I encountered the problem. Please reassign where appropriate. When I run emacs I get the message '''Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"''' This is solved by installing libcanberra-gtk-module, as shown below: paul@stromboli ~ $ emacs Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" paul@stromboli ~ $ sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libcanberra-gtk-module 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 15.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 98.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libcanberra-gtk-module i386 0.28-0ubuntu10 [15.8 kB] Fetched 15.8 kB in 0s (113 kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package libcanberra-gtk-module. (Reading database ... 184062 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libcanberra-gtk-module (from .../libcanberra-gtk-module_0.28-0ubuntu10_i386.deb) ... Setting up libcanberra-gtk-module (0.28-0ubuntu10) ... paul@stromboli ~ $ emacs paul@stromboli ~ $ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: emacs 23.3+1-1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 8 14:35:07 2011 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100112.2) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: emacs23 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-05 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/870674/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
