I also hit this particular bug. I paused Rhythmbox yesterday before I went to bed, came back from work just now, and everything using audio hangs (Rhythmbox and Firefox/Flash). The pulseaudio daemon is still running, but it does not accept connections. There is nothing pulseaudio-related printed in syslog or ~/.xsession-errors.
$ pulseaudio -k
does not work, it is unable to kill the running daemon.
$ kill -term `pidof pulseaudio`
does not work.
$ kill -9 `pidof pulseaudio`
does the trick.
Starting up pulseaudio again by running pulse-session works, without having to log out and back in.
I also hit this particular bug. I paused Rhythmbox yesterday before I went to bed, came back from work just now, and everything using audio hangs (Rhythmbox and Firefox/Flash). The pulseaudio daemon is still running, but it does not accept connections. There is nothing pulseaudio-related printed in syslog or ~/.xsession-errors.
$ pulseaudio -k
does not work, it is unable to kill the running daemon.
$ kill -term `pidof pulseaudio`
does not work.
$ kill -9 `pidof pulseaudio`
does the trick.
Starting up pulseaudio again by running pulse-session works, without having to log out and back in.