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Hi, I'm trying to get mpd (Music Player Daemon) running locally. I've installed it from the packman repo, and edited the config file, but it refuses to write the music database, even though it does write to its logfile. My ~/.mpdconf contains the following lines (I've edited out all the commented out lines): music_directory "/home/bob/music" playlist_directory "/home/bob/.mpd/playlists" db_file "/home/bob/.mpd/database/mpd.db" log_file "/home/bob/.mpd/mpd.log" pid_file "/home/bob/.mpd/pid" state_file "/home/bob/.mpd/state" user "bob" port "6600" log_level "default" gapless_mp3_playback "yes" metadata_to_use "artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc" default_permissions "read,add,control,admin" # The log file grows every time I issue ~> mpd --create-db, and contains lines such as Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Lou Rhodes/2007 Bloom/03 Icarus.flac Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Lou Rhodes/2007 Bloom/05 All We Are.flac Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Lou Rhodes/2007 Bloom/02 Greatness In a Speck Of dust.flac Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Lou Rhodes/2007 Bloom/10 Bloom.flac Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Thelonius Monk/Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins/05 Friday The 13Th.FLAC Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Thelonius Monk/Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins/01 The Way You Look Tonight.FLAC Nov 18 23:04 : update: added Thelonius Monk/Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins/04 Nutty.FLAC so it would appear to be able to access my music collection, although it can't write its database file. Setting the log_level variable to "verbose" doesn't give any more information :( All the directories are owned by bob. TIA 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