I am also experiencing this in version 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty. This happens only when logging off as the original post stated. Killing the process fixes the issue. Here is the verbose log as instructed.
** Attachment added: "LANG=C pulseaudio -vvvv" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/638123/+attachment/2038570/+files/pulseverbose.log ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/638123 Title: after logout sound does not work and have to kill pulseaudio to get sound back -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs