I'm trying to run pulseaudio on a headless Raspberry Pi platform with most recent packages:

ArchLinuxArm OS : Linux 3.10.28-1-ARCH 
pulseaudio 4.0-6

Starting and stopping pulseaudio via systemd this regularly leads to system-freezes during shutdown caused by systemd-journald crashes.

I was able to simply reproduce this by issuing the simple command sequence:

pulseaudio --daemon
pulseaudio -k

In about every second case this leads to crash of the systemd-journald process with a subsequent restart. Probably because the restart isn't possible during shutdown the system freezes.

I think this is also an issue for systemd-developers because it should be able to handle any misbehaviour when shutting down daemons.

But pulseaudio should also provide a shutdown without causing any troubles.

Console-listing:

~ >ps -aux | grep systemd-journald
root      1835  0.0  1.4  50616  6752 ?        Ss   18:05   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
hape      1986  0.0  0.2   4212   988 pts/0    S+   18:49   0:00 grep systemd-journald
~ >pulseaudio --start
~ >pulseaudio -k
~ >ps -aux | grep systemd-journald
root      1835  0.0 14.9 214152 70768 ?        Rs   18:05   0:02 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
hape      2008  0.0  0.2   4212   988 pts/0    S+   18:50   0:00 grep systemd-journald
~ >pulseaudio --start
~ >pulseaudio -k
~ >ps -aux | grep systemd-journald
root      2037 16.0  0.7  13852  3780 ?        Ds   18:50   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
hape      2041  0.0  0.2   4212   988 pts/0    S+   18:50   0:00 grep systemd-journald
~ >

As can be seen the systemd-journald has been restarted after the second sequence.