pulseaudio:tldr:2d1fb
pulseaudio: Kill the running PulseAudio daemon.
$ pulseaudio --kill
try on your machine
The command "pulseaudio --kill" is used to terminate the running instance of PulseAudio, which is a sound server that handles audio operations on Linux-based systems.
When you execute this command, it sends a signal to the PulseAudio process instructing it to stop functioning. This can be useful in situations where you want to restart or reconfigure PulseAudio, or if you're encountering issues with audio playback and want to troubleshoot by restarting the sound server.
After executing the command, PulseAudio will be stopped, and any applications relying on it for audio playback will no longer have access to sound outputs until PulseAudio is restarted.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.