I've been seeing the same thing on Jaunty. If Firefox is left open for a day or so on, e.g., Hulu, then if I come back and try to use it it will hang. Most other apps can recover from this state though b/c they just reconnect to Pulse.
Re-opening. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- Can't play sound because of pulseaudio hang https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs