[pulseaudio] How to restart pulse-audio?

[kakyoism]

When I open my pavucontrol interface, it says cannot connect
and my VMWare complained about /dev/dsp busy as well...

How do I restart my pulse-audio??

Thx!

[jaygo]

for the record ...
you can kill pulseaudio by running, as user, not root:
pulseaudio -k
or
killall pulseaudio

pulseaudio --check will check if any instances are still running.

Finally, simply start pulseaudio from the run dialog (Alt + F2 by default)