Comment 4 for bug 282383

I doubt this is a pulseaudio problem. I can play sounds and music through alsa via pulseaudio, and also through pulseaudio directly, and this bug affects me in jaunty. I'm assuming this has something to do with the way gnome is trying to play the alert and system sounds, none of which play when the event occurs. They do all play, however, when the preview icon is clicked in the sound control panel. The login sound plays, but the logout and system beep sounds are beeps out the pc speaker. Disabling the 'play alert sound' option stops the beep out of the pc speaker as well.
If this isn't a bug in gnome-desktop, I apologise, but I think it's somewhere in gnome, since I don't seem to be having any other pulseaudio problems, through alsa or not.