Pulseaudio volume control crashes sound

[Rick Stevens]

On 05/11/2014 12:42 PM, Paul Cartwright issued this missive:
> I was trying to make a call on skype, and they couldn't hear me ( I
> guess I need to plug in a microphone;-)
> but in the process I ran the PA volume control, or tried to. It started,
> brought up a window saying something like " trying to talk to sound
> server, or connecting to sound server... I forget exactly", then the PA
> volume control window disappeared, and I had no sound. Besides logging
> out & back in,  what can I do to bring back the sound?? how do you
> restart pulseaudio??

As the desktop user, "pulseaudio -k;pulseaudio --start".

> what are my options to get rid of Pulseaudio?? install alsa??

I don't think you should. This bug should be fixed soon.