[pulseaudio-discuss] PA 10 : paplay can't connect !

[sean darcy]

On Fedora 25, running PA 10.0.

[video at sixcore ~]$ ps aux |  grep pulse
video     2319  0.0  0.0 433508 12212 ?        Ssl  15:51   0:00 
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
video     2358  0.0  0.0 130028  4892 ?        S    15:51   0:00 
/usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper

[video at sixcore ~]$ pacmd stat
Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 35, size: 1.9 MiB.
Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Total sample cache size: 0 B.
Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default channel map: front-left,front-right
Default sink name: 
alsa_output.usb-AudioQuest_inc._AudioQuest_DragonFly-00.analog-stereo
.....................

but

[video at sixcore ~]$ paplay /home/video/Music/Route_66.wav
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

Thanks for any help.
sean