I can confirm this bug. I can trigger it with playing quake live ;-), after that i also have no sound in some programs (totem, vlc, xine, mplayer), but others work (rythmbox, flashplugin). I have not yet found a way to fix that without rebooting, restarting pulseaudio doesn't work strangely.
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- PulseAudio opens too many files, locks up, and fills up root fs (/var/log) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs