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Dethredic

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MPD, no read permissions

Ok, so I have read the wiki and tried both setups, , but both aren't working.
Firstly I have run this:
chmod a+x /home/phil
chmod -R a+X /home/phil/music

1st method:

[phil@fml ~]$ ls -l ~/.mpd
total 168
drwxrwxr-x 2 phil users   4096 Feb  6 09:27 config
-rwxrwxr-x 1 phil users      0 Feb  6 09:24 db
-rwxrwxr-x 1 phil users 123656 Jan 22 16:32 mpd.db
-rwxrwxr-x 1 phil users   4367 Aug  9 21:22 mpd.error
-rwxrwxr-x 1 phil users      0 Feb  6 09:23 mpd.log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 phil users      0 Feb  6 09:23 mpd.pid
-rwxrwxr-x 1 phil users  31246 Feb  5 23:39 mpdstate
-rwxrwxr-x 1 phil users      0 Feb  6 09:23 playlists
[phil@fml ~]$ cat ~/.mpd/config/mpd.conf 
music_directory        "/home/phil/music"
playlist_directory "/home/phil/.mpd/playlists"
db_file "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file "/home/phil/.mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file "/home/phil/.mpd/mpdstate"
user "mpd"
#bind_to_address        "any"
#bind_to_address        "~/.mpd/socket"
#port                "6600"
[phil@fml ~]$ mpd /home/phil/.mpd/config
output: No "audio_output" defined in config file
output: Attempt to detect audio output device
output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device
output: Successfully detected a alsa audio device
[phil@fml ~]$

while starting that last command, in the Sonata window I see "No read permissions". I also tried the other method from the wiki and that didn't help either.
Any ideas?

Last edited by Dethredic (2010-02-06 15:24:36)

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Themaister

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Re: MPD, no read permissions

Tried adding mpd: ALL to /etc/hosts.allow?

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Dethredic

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Re: MPD, no read permissions

didn't help.

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Rasi

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Re: MPD, no read permissions

Its probably talking about the media files in /home/phil/music. (and the directory itself) they need to be readable by user mpd.

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brisbin33

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Re: MPD, no read permissions

i recommend running mpd as yourself before you add +x on your ~/; alternatively, you could bind mount ~/Music to something the user mpd has access to.

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n0dix

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Re: MPD, no read permissions

Try this:
1. change the user in your .mpd,

sudo chown -R mpd:mpd ~/.mpd

2. change your config file, and comment the line: user "mpd".
3. change the owner of the file config.

sudo chown user:user mpd.conf

4. change the permissions:

chmod 700 mpd.conf

5. for the last, run it.

mpd /home/phil/.mpd/config/mpd.conf

I got the same problem, and i solved doing this.
Good luck!

Last edited by n0dix (2010-02-06 19:20:10)