[arch-general] mpd fails to start

[Richard Schütz]

Am 10.06.2011 18:47, schrieb Madhurya Kakati:
> Hello,
> Recently mpd has stopped working. It doesn't start up at boot and when i
> run "rc.d start mpd" I get this error /etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 24502
> Aborted                 /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf&>/dev/null.
> I am using gnome3(if thats somehow causing the problem.) I believe its
> due to some ALSA pulseaudio mixup but I am not sure.
> However if I run "sudo mpd" I get this output:
> [papul at papuldesktop ~]$ sudo mpd
> 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
>
> and after that if I run "mpc play" I get this:
> [papul at papuldesktop ~]$ mpc play
> Metallica - The Unforgiven II
> [paused]  #4/8   0:00/6:36 (0%)
> volume: n/a   repeat: off   random: off   single: off   consume: off
> ERROR: problems opening audio device
>
> Please help coz I haven't been able to listen to music for quite
> sometime now. :(

Did you try to configure MPD to use PulseAudio then? (see [1])

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPD

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Regards,
Richard Schütz