Description of problem:

paplay freeze and do not play 
pacat works well

this is a traced session

[pat1@localhost utils]$ pacat -v test.wav 
Opening a playback stream with sample specification 's16le 2ch 44100Hz' and channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
Connection established.
Stream successfully created.
Buffer metrics: maxlength=4194304, tlength=352800, prebuf=349276, minreq=3528
Using sample spec 's16le 2ch 44100Hz', channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
Connected to device alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo (0, not suspended).
Stream started.
^CGot signal, exiting.cy: 2009832 usec.        
[pat1@localhost utils]$ 
[pat1@localhost utils]$ 
[pat1@localhost utils]$ paplay -v test.wav 
Opening a playback stream with sample specification 's16le 2ch 44100Hz' and channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
Connection established.
Stream successfully created.
Buffer metrics: maxlength=4194304, tlength=352800, prebuf=349276, minreq=3528
Using sample spec 's16le 2ch 44100Hz', channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
Connected to device alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo (0, not suspended).
^CGot signal, exiting.cy: 371156 usec.    
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
paplay any audio file


Steps to Reproduce:
1. paplay test.wav
 
Actual results:
freeze and do not play

Expected results:
play audio file also not in raw format

Additional info:
in Ubuntu 9.10 works