Re: [opensuse] Is anybody successfully using mpd with openSUSE?

On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 22:11:25 Georg wrote:

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Bob Williams wrote:

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On Saturday 27 Nov 2010 15:13:32 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Bob Williams [11-27-10 10:05]:

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What permissions do you have on ~/.mpd/ ?

drwxr-xr-x 2 pat users 4096 2010-11-27 10:11 .mpd

Interestingly, my permissions are more permissive, including write + execute for the group as well.

drwxrwxr-x 4 bob users 4096 2010-11-27 15:03 /home/bob/.mpd

This is because of advice seen in the various forums I've reviewed.

I don't _need_ mpd to work, as mplayer plays my music just fine, but it's extremely frustrating to find that something doesn't work, and not know why.

As my son says

"Frustrating. You know the computer is right and you're wrong of course (I have this experience everyday)."

Anyway, many thanks for your input, Patrick. I shall continue to worry at this problem until it or me gives up :)

Bob

well, I remember reading that mpd needs write permission in all the directories it has to use. If I remember right, I had to do some fiddling to make it work too, and at the end I managed to make it work as user mpd and not as normal user. Also, I could not make pulse to work fine, and switched it of, could it be that? Also, my /var/lib/mpd has group set to audio, not users, but cannot remember if I did that or if it was default. Try running it as mpd and see what happens

I started running it as mpd:audio, and saving the database in /var/lib/mpd but switched to running as my username in my /home when the default way didn't work :( Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.36.90-desktop, KDE 4.5.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org