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FilledVoid

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 13

[SOLVED]Conky and MPD problems

Hi all,
I'm a pretty new ArchLinux (64-bit) user and I recently thought of trying to install MPD and conky on it . Well I was able to do both and each of them work fine independently. However if I use a conky script which tries to retrieve information from MPD I get the below error.

Conky: use_spacer should have an argument of left, right, or none.  'no' seems to be some form of 'false', so defaulting to none.
Conky: desktop window (120003a) is subwindow of root window (13b)
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (2c00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Connection refused

Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Connection refused

Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Connection refused

And it continues on. I'm not exactly sure what I should do to get this fixed. Would appreciate any help  on what to do to fix this.

here are the lines pointing to mpd in my .conkyrc file.

#mpd

mpd_host localhost

mpd_port 6600

Do I have to compile conky with the --enable-mpd flag for this to work? I sort of tried that and I ran into quite a few errors in the "make install".

Thanks

Last edited by FilledVoid (2008-07-09 12:38:54)

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: [SOLVED]Conky and MPD problems

It works with conky from the repo here (i686 though), do you have a firewall running? If so make sure that you accept all connections on loopback.

FilledVoid

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED]Conky and MPD problems

I didn't install one so I believe I wouldn't have one. Out of curiosity should my hosts file be like this?

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1        MachineX.localdomain         MachineX

# End of file

And would this have anything to do with the above problem?

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: [SOLVED]Conky and MPD problems

Might be, change it to this:

127.0.0.1        MachineX.localdomain         localhost MachineX

FilledVoid

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED]Conky and MPD problems

Thank you so Much . Thats exactly what the problem was!