aptitude/apt-get makes the computer speaker beep

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 13 16:37:28 UTC 2009


On 10/12/2009 10:19 PM, Wesley wrote:
> I have no idea why this is happening, I've noticed some sporadic unique and
> short beeps trough the last days, but today I ran "aptitude" and got scared
> on how many beeps my machine was making (I even thought my no-break was
> going nuts, but confirmed it was the PC and related to apt).
> The beeps start right after "sudo aptitude update" or "sudo apt-get upgrade"
> (even if there's nothing to be upgraded), and ceases when I get the prompt
> back.
> 
> I tried to google this but didn't find anything relevant.
> 
> This is the beep:
> http://senduit.com/f48e34

Now that you've sorted out what caused it, can you advise how you
recorded the sounds?





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