Hello, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello, > > Our MPD service does not work out of the box. Running under its default > 'mpd' user, clients would get the following error attempting to update > its database, e.g. by running 'mpc update': > > MPD error: database > > > This particular problem was solved by adding the following field to my > mpd-configuration record (thanks to Bruno): > > (database (mpd-plugin > (plugin "simple") > (extra-options > '((path . "/var/lib/mpd/database") > (cache-directory . "/var/cache/mpd"))))) > > > and running > > mkdir /var/cache/mpd && chown mpd:users /var/cache/mpd The cache-directory configuration doesn't seem to be useful so far; nothing was being populated under /var/cache/mpd. in /var/log/messages, pulseaudio throws a couple errors: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Apr 25 23:06:52 localhost pulseaudio[10356]: [pulseaudio] module-jackdbus-detect.c: Unable to contact D-Bus session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 Apr 25 23:06:52 localhost pulseaudio[10356]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-jackdbus-detect" (argument: "channels=2"): initialization failed. Apr 25 23:06:52 localhost pulseaudio[10356]: [pulseaudio] cli-command.c: stat('/gnu/store/5ahapvp7rnd2ymakyjv1pwwdav7w9wdc-pulseaudio-16.1/etc/pulse/default.pa.d'): No such file or directory Apr 25 23:06:52 localhost pulseaudio[10356]: [pulseaudio] main.c: No card found by this name or index. Apr 25 23:06:52 localhost pulseaudio[10356]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Source alsa_input.pci-0000_01_01.0.analog-mono does not exist. Apr 25 23:06:52 localhost pulseaudio[10356]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_01_01.0.analog-surround-40 does not exist. Apr 25 23:06:52 localhost pulseaudio[10356]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 Apr 25 23:06:52 localhost pulseaudio[10356]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Thanks, Maxim