Comment # 13 on bug 1205640 from Antonio Larrosa

(In reply to Bart Verhagen from comment #12)
> @antonio larrosa: In order to provide you with the requested information, I
> (lazily) did a `zypper dup` to Tumbleweed 20221122.
> 
> In this snapshot, I can no longer reproduce the issue. `paplay
> /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav` now successfully plays (without the config
> file being present).

Interesting. That's good I guess.

> For me, this is good enough as a solution to close the bug. Is this good
> enough for you too or do you really want to get to the bottom of this?

It would be interesting to see what fixed this. Can you run

grep 2022-11-24 /var/log/zypp/history > /tmp/update.log

and attach that file to see what packages were modified in the update?