GC Start up noise.

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 08:53:29 schreef John Ralls:
> On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Robert Eldon Taylor wrote:
> > Regards to All,
> > 
> > Using WinXp SP2 and GC 2.4.8.
> > 
> > When I start the program it makes a very irritating noise on my
> > computer's speaker (not the sound board) consisting of a very rapid
> > series of beeps.  Sometimes it is louder and sometimes barely audible
> > and sometime very loud, as today.  No other program I have does this
> > and in fact I only hear the speaker when booting my machine.
> > 
> > I have looked for an option to control this but cannot find one. I hope
> > there is some way to shut this off?
> That's seriously strange. Gnucash has no sound code at all, and AFAIK no one
> has ever mentioned this before.
> 
> Windows users, has anyone else noticed this?
> 
I never experienced this, no. But if there is code in GnuCash to trigger this, 
my guess would be it's the code the gathers random data to  generate GUID's 
later on. Some time back I discovered [1] this code was responsible for long 
delays during startup in some cases because it tried to read from a network 
device in a Netware enabled network.

Perhaps it's triggering some sound devices in a similar way ?

Regards,

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521817