My PC speaker (on the motherboard) beeps upon restart or shutdown

[diablo75]

I am running Ubuntu 9.04, fresh install (well a fresh root partition, the home folder is leftover from a previous install).

Every time I shut my computer down or restart, I hear several very rapid beeps (practically one beep but it's really several that happen very very fast). I never see any errors appear when this happens or after so I don't know what to make out of this. Is there a log file perhaps that could shed some light on this?

[talonstriker]

I have the same problem. As a workaround, I typically log off, then shutdown from the login screen. This does the job, but I hope to find a better solution soon.

[Idaho Dan]

Mine does the same thing after installing 9.04.
It never did it before.

[nacho32]

this is really nothing to worry about, you should be able to disable it in the bios

[hyperdude111]

This is called system-beep, it is not an error but is a feature of ubuntu.

Go System-preferences-sound

System beep tab - Disable system beep.

This guide was the source of my info http://www.foogazi.com/2008/05/01/ho...eep-in-ubuntu/

[talonstriker]

This is called system-beep, it is not an error but is a feature of ubuntu.

Go System-preferences-sound

System beep tab - Disable system beep.

This guide was the source of my info http://www.foogazi.com/2008/05/01/ho...eep-in-ubuntu/

This turns off all the system beeps except for the shutdown beep.

[michy99]

Edit the file /etc/rc.local

gksu gedit /etc/rc.local

and make it look like

#!/bin/sh -e
# ...
for console in /dev/tty[1-7]; do 
    setterm -blength 0 >$console
done
exit 0

Make it executable with

sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local

Then after rebooting once the shutdown beep should be gone.