I also ran into this problem. Here is the relevnat part of
/var/run/mpd/<mpd-user>/log
exception: Failed to create pid file "/var/run/mpd/<mpd-user>/pid": Permission
denied
A quick dirty fix is just to chown the /var/run/mpd folder so that mpd
can create its pid file.
On 11/27/20 4:31 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi,
Simon <li...@netpanic.org> skribis:
On a recent pull, MPD will not start any more.
Herd status reports:
Status of mpd:
It is stopped.
It is disabled.
Provides (mpd).
Requires (user-processes).
Conflicts with ().
Will be respawned.
Last respawned on Mon Nov 23 10:22:07+0100 2020.
Reading my messages, I find:
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been disabled.
Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: (Respawning too fast.)
Unfortunately, there are no further messages as to why the service is
disabled, or why the daemon is respawning too often.
Does /var/log/mpd/mpd.log or similar contain useful info?
Could you share your ‘mpd-configuration’?
There have been two changes recently, which fixed the mpd system test,
but perhaps they introduced other issues:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log?id=bb124f6e9c0af0a23736f233c2ea2c9c9b4a40a6
Thanks for reporting the issue,
Ludo’.
