[SOLVED] mpd Permission woes

jazen · 2010-09-16 18:42:27

After spending 2 hours trying to configure mpd, I'm livid.

I've gotten various errors and tried various "solutions" found online to no avail (and i even lost my sudo root priviledges for a while). I've configured mpd according to the arch wiki guide and things just aren't working.

when I try and launch mpd via

$ mpd /etc/mpd.conf

I get

daemon: cannot setgid for user "mpd": Operation not permitted
Aborted

Here's how I have my /etc/mpd.conf set up

# My parameters
music_directory "/home/jazen/my Music/Music"
playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists"
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.0.log"
pid_file "/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"
user "mpd"

Last edited by jazen (2010-09-17 09:12:02)

litemotiv · 2010-09-16 18:56:35

I've never looked at that wiki page and have ran MPD just fine by only changing the path to my music directory. Might be worth a try?

Inxsible · 2010-09-16 18:59:46

Also, mpd is not the only option to play music. Look into other players if mpd is giving you the hissy fit

jazen · 2010-09-16 19:02:46

I wanted to get mpd working since I wanted a challenge, but I guess I'll just give it up (usually hate leaving things incomplete) I guess I'll just instal audacious

lifeafter2am · 2010-09-16 19:03:13

Using "/home/jazen/my Music/Music" with the space in there works? I would think that you would have to make it "/home/jazen/my\ Music/Music". Plus, I run mpd as my username, not as mpd (which is why you are getting that error). Other than that I also have playlist, log, and db_file in .mpd within my home directory.

Last edited by lifeafter2am (2010-09-16 19:04:15)

litemotiv · 2010-09-16 19:09:15

lifeafter2am wrote:

I would think that you would have to make it "/home/jazen/my\ Music/Music".

No that shouldn't be necessary if the string is between quotes, it is interpreted literally then.

brisbin33 · 2010-09-16 19:22:26

Um...

jazen wrote:

$ mpd /etc/mpd.conf

mpds output wrote:

daemon: cannot setgid for user "mpd": Operation not permitted
Aborted

so... did you try it as root?

Wintervenom · 2010-09-16 19:31:13

Try MPD as your own user. You do not really need to run it as a system daemon unless you are planning on making it a dedicated service on a server machine.

Here is my MPD configuration.
"$HOME/.config/mpd/mpd.conf"

#
music_directory "~/Music/Library"
playlist_directory "~/Music/Playlists"
db_file "~/.config/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "~/.config/mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file "~/.config/mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file "~/.config/mpd/mpdstate"

save_absolute_paths_in_playlists "yes"
zeroconf_enabled  "no"
gapless_mp3_playback   "yes"
#replaygain   "track"
#replaygain_preamp  "0"
volume_normalization  "yes"
audio_buffer_size  "4096"
#buffer_before_play  "20%"
max_playlist_length  "300000"
#max_command_list_size  "2048"
max_output_buffer_size  "16384"

input {
  plugin "curl"
}

audio_output {
  type  "alsa"
  name  "ALSA"
  device  "equal"
  use_mmap "yes"
}

audio_output {
 type "httpd"
 name "mpd-httpd@incubine"
 encoder "vorbis"
 port "7002"
 quality "3.0"
 format "44100:16:2"
}

audio_output {
  type "fifo"
  name "FIFO"
  path "/tmp/mpd.fifo"
  format "44100:16:2"
}

Last edited by Wintervenom (2010-09-16 19:32:59)

jasonwryan · 2010-09-16 19:53:55

Your issue is described in the troubleshooting section of the mpd article on the wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpd … _permitted

Also, as others have suggested, running mpd from your ~ simplifies things considerably.

You might want to change your title to something more accurate, like 'Permissions issue with mpd' Your current one is both vague and inaccurate...

psyodin · 2010-09-17 05:40:22

As stated earlier setting up MPD in ~/ can help with some installs

this thread has always worked for me: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/4686/howto-mpd/

of course adapting it to arch from ubuntu

have a nice day

Last edited by psyodin (2010-09-17 05:41:34)

jazen · 2010-09-17 07:53:43

Thanks for the advice everyone. I decided to do what Wintervenom did by putting all the files in ~/.config/mpd/ and its working now. And I also adjusted the title. Sorry for the vague title at first.

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