MPD starting and stopping at shutdown

jonnybarnes · 2011-05-25 20:40:06

I have added mpd to my gnome3 startup programs by running gnome-session-properties and adding mpd ~/.mpd/mpd.conf but no dice, I have to run the command myself before I can play any music.

My other issue is it causes my boot-down process to stall. I believe this is because my music in on a NAS. Switching to Alt+F8 on shut down I see it fails to unmount network file-systems because they are busy, then it stops the network, then when it gets to unmounting file-systems it just hangs at 'BUSY'.

This is avoided if I remember to issue mpd --kill before a reboot or shutdown.

I was thinking, looking at the other startup programs, maybe MPD will work if I point to the binary explicitly; i.e. /usr/bin/mpd.

Mr.Elendig · 2011-05-25 20:46:24

hack a rc.d script to run it as your user? With smart placement in the daemon array it should be started after the network is up, and killed before it goes down.

jonnybarnes · 2011-05-26 00:07:44

I have edited /etc/rc.conf and added mpd to the daemons array. I have also edited /etc/rc.d/mpd to use the conf file at ~/.mpd/mpd.conf.

I know have MPD starting up absolutely fine, I still need to kill mpd myself before going to shutdown to avoid an issue with networked drives.

How can I get MPD to be killed before the system tries to unmount the networked filesystems?

demian · 2011-05-26 06:55:14

Use netcfg or wicd and create a pre_down hook (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … _up.2Fdown)

Example for netcfg:

/etc/network.d/interfaces/eth0
PRE_DOWN="rc.d stop mpd; umount yournetworksharehere"

You could also place those commands somewhere at the top of your /etc/rc.shutdown or /etc/rc.local.shutdown.
You just have to find a place where the commands get executed before the filesystems are unmounted. I'd put it in rc.shutdown somewhere before the
"stat_busy 'Unmounting Filesystems'" part.

Regards,
demian

Last edited by demian (2011-05-26 06:59:35)

kowalski · 2011-05-26 07:34:10

Why not use /etc/rc.local.shutdown for this?
Just put

/usr/bin/mpc stop > /dev/null
/bin/umount -t cifs -a

in there.
Replace "cifs" with any filesystem type applicable (like "nfs" or whatever it is you use).

jonnybarnes · 2011-05-26 13:20:48

OK, so editing the rc files wasn't working. So I've just copied this onto my local hard drive. I'll just have to keep this and my iTunes library in sync manually.

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#1 2011-05-25 20:40:06

MPD starting and stopping at shutdown

#2 2011-05-25 20:46:24

Re: MPD starting and stopping at shutdown

#3 2011-05-26 00:07:44

Re: MPD starting and stopping at shutdown

#4 2011-05-26 06:55:14

Re: MPD starting and stopping at shutdown

#5 2011-05-26 07:34:10

Re: MPD starting and stopping at shutdown

#6 2011-05-26 13:20:48

Re: MPD starting and stopping at shutdown

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