I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation. Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root sudo mpg123 t.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3 version 1.31.1; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes ALSA lib pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused [src/libout123/modules/alsa.c:open_alsa():181] error: cannot open device default [src/libout123/libout123.c:check_output_module():947] error: Module 'alsa' device open failed. [src/libout123/libout123.c:out123_open():439] error: Found no driver out of [alsa] working with device <default>. main: [src/mpg123.c:check_fatal_output():334] error: out123 error 3: failure loading driver module _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue