Pulseaudio fails (does not work) after last system upgrade

Pulseaudio fails (does not work) after last system upgrade (today).
Pulseaudio volume control GUI hangs on infinite loader

$ systemctl --user start pulseaudio.service
Job for pulseaudio.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service" and "journalctl --user -xe" for details.
$ systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-11-05 21:57:32 EET; 4s ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
    Process: 31166 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 31166 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

лис 05 21:57:32 roman-pc systemd[1230]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
лис 05 21:57:32 roman-pc systemd[1230]: Stopped Sound Service.
лис 05 21:57:32 roman-pc systemd[1230]: pulseaudio.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
лис 05 21:57:32 roman-pc systemd[1230]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
лис 05 21:57:32 roman-pc systemd[1230]: Failed to start Sound Service.