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heleos

Member

From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Strange MPD problems (conky/dzen?)

I'm having a strange problem with MPD ever since I started messing around with xmonad/dzen2/conky-cli. I seem to lose control of mpd, but my music continue's to play... Sometimes it will randomly come back, but most of the time I'm left unable to control it, the only way of stopping it being a kill. here are the errors I'm getting (from a conky-cli config):

^fg(white)  |  ^fg(white)Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 07:51:39 PM
Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Operation now in progress

Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Operation now in progress

^fg(white)  |  ^fg(white)Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 07:51:40 PM
Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Operation now in progress

^fg(white)  |  ^fg(white)Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 07:51:41 PM
Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Operation now in progress

^fg(white)  |  ^fg(white)Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 07:51:42 PM
Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Operation now in progress

^fg(white)  |  ^fg(white)Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 07:51:43 PM
Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Operation now in progress

^fg(white)  |  ^fg(white)Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 07:51:44 PM
Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Operation now in progress

^fg(white)  |  ^fg(white)Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 07:51:45 PM
Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Operation now in progress

I never had this problem until I started messing with all this new stuff.... I'll check mpd in a different environment and see what happens... in the mean time, here is my relevant mpd.conf, although nothing has changed since when it was working:

music_directory "/mnt/storage/Music"

playlist_directory "/home/heleos/.mpd/playlists/"

db_file "/home/heleos/.mpd/mpd.db"

log_file "/home/heleos/.mpd/mpd.log"

error_file "/home/heleos/.mpd/mpd.error"

pid_file "/home/heleos/.mpd/mpd.pid"

state_file "/home/heleos/.mpd/mpdstate"

user "heleos"

port                "6600"

audio_output {
    type            "oss"
    name            "My OSS Device"
#    device            "/dev/dsp"    # optional
#    format            "44100:16:2"    # optional
}

CoolWhip

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Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 51

Re: Strange MPD problems (conky/dzen?)

I know this is WAY old.. but im getting this exact same thing... and it was one of the top google results.. so if anyone has a fix, please post it

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Strange MPD problems (conky/dzen?)

CoolWhip, better open a thread on your own and refer back to this one. You will be more in control besides being more actual.
(You can even mark your thread as [SOLVED] if you get this far. )

Closing this one.

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