Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:11:11
Message-Id: 200909032118.12399.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues by Maxim Wexler
1 On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:04:06 Maxim Wexler wrote:
2 > > NAFC.
3 >
4 > New anagram for me. Not As Far...?
5
6 Not A F..king Clue
7
8 :-)
9 >
10 > >But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you.
11 > > I'll send you a public key.
12 >
13 > Can't grok. If I have an "account" on this box it's news to me. How
14 > and what would you be looking for?
15
16 Well, you basically said "mpd doesn't work. Why?"
17
18 To which the best answer is "I haven't the foggiest idea". But, if I could log
19 into the machine in question and run a shell, I'd be in an excellent position
20 to give a sane answer.
21
22 Don't read too much into it. I felt like taking the mickey out of someone and
23 today was your turn :-)
24
25 > > Or, you could look in your logs and tell us what you see. You might have
26 > > to tell mpd to start logging errors first.
27 >
28 > Not doing it now. I followed the wiki and made the log_level "verbose"
29 > did a restart and just got a lot of 'database: get song' lines.
30 >
31 > I've heard this from others. mpd known to change it's behavior from
32 > boot to boot.
33
34 Without some form of sane output message or a well-known bug, it's not
35 possible to diagnose what you might be running into.
36
37 I personally have never heard of mpd doing different things between boots.
38 Changing configs and not restarting mpd - yes. Random changes - no.
39
40 mpd works just fine for me and is rock-solid here.
41
42 --
43 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com>