mpd not playing after gnome 2.28 upgrade

daedalusman · 2009-10-14 21:45:45

I upgraded to gnome 2.28 today and now mpd wont play any tracks. I tried using both sonata and mpc but neither of them can play a track. I was getting this error...

Oct 14 12:40 : avahi: Client Disconnected, will reconnect shortly
Oct 14 12:40 : avahi: Could not reconnect: Daemon not running

So I started the two daemons that are related to avahi in the rc.d folder, avahi-daemon and avahi-dnsconfd, now the mpd.log file says...

Oct 14 15:38 : avahi: Service 'Music Player' successfully established.
Oct 14 15:38 : avahi: Service 'Music Player' successfully established.

But still mpd doesn't play anything. Can someone help me solve this problem, do I need to provide you with more information? Thanks for any help.

PS: Exaile works just fine.

Nepherte · 2009-10-15 08:45:47

How do you run mpd? As a user or system-wide? Mpd runs fine as a regular user in gnoe 2.28

daedalusman · 2009-10-15 14:26:00

I run it using the daemon at start up.

daedalusman · 2009-10-16 03:00:29

So after some fiddling with the config file I found out that I can get mpd to work if I run it as root, though not as a normal user.

But if I try to run it as a daemon using mpd as the user it doesn't work. MPD will startup fine but it wont play any files. When I use "mpc play" it throws out this error...

ERROR: problems decoding "Rock/7 Shot Screamers/Keep The Flame Alive/03 - Liquor Store.mp3"

I really would love to get this problem fixed, hopefully this is help out some. Thanks.

Nepherte · 2009-10-16 11:57:44

I've always prefered running mpd as a user without a daemon and running mpd as root is certainly not advised. But seeing that it works for you as root, do you have sufficient permissions for your music directory? If you're interested in setting up mpd as a regular user without a daemon, see http://www.nepherte.be/howto-use-mpd-an … ike-a-pro/

daedalusman · 2009-10-17 01:33:47

Nepherte wrote:

I've always prefered running mpd as a user without a daemon and running mpd as root is certainly not advised. But seeing that it works for you as root, do you have sufficient permissions for your music directory? If you're interested in setting up mpd as a regular user without a daemon, see http://www.nepherte.be/howto-use-mpd-an … ike-a-pro/

Thanks, that link helped me out, I guess I will just run mpd as a user now instead of the daemon or root.

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#1 2009-10-14 21:45:45

mpd not playing after gnome 2.28 upgrade

#2 2009-10-15 08:45:47

Re: mpd not playing after gnome 2.28 upgrade

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