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From: Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:20:00
Message-Id: a0811460909081219i4422061an5d5f8434fde74e67@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues by Alan McKinnon
1 Doing it again. Only change is to tell the conf to get debuggy. Unit
2 boots; last three lines before login:
3
4 Starting Music Player Daemon
5 Starting local
6 Stopping Music Player Daemon
7
8 This after several successful boots with no problem.
9
10 Nothing in mpd.log
11
12 A clue? Seems to occur when I'm mobile(this is an Asus netbook BTW)
13 and I have to enter the BIOS to turn the wifi on(I know, there's a key
14 to do this but it doesn't work, yet).
15
16 If you think it would help to login to my machine, I'm game. Send me
17 the details, pls
18
19 On 9/3/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
20 > On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:04:06 Maxim Wexler wrote:
21 >> > NAFC.
22 >>
23 >> New anagram for me. Not As Far...?
24 >
25 > Not A F..king Clue
26 >
27 > :-)
28 >>
29 >> >But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you.
30 >> > I'll send you a public key.
31 >>
32 >> Can't grok. If I have an "account" on this box it's news to me. How
33 >> and what would you be looking for?
34 >
35 > Well, you basically said "mpd doesn't work. Why?"
36 >
37 > To which the best answer is "I haven't the foggiest idea". But, if I could
38 > log
39 > into the machine in question and run a shell, I'd be in an excellent
40 > position
41 > to give a sane answer.
42 >
43 > Don't read too much into it. I felt like taking the mickey out of someone
44 > and
45 > today was your turn :-)
46 >
47 >> > Or, you could look in your logs and tell us what you see. You might have
48 >> > to tell mpd to start logging errors first.
49 >>
50 >> Not doing it now. I followed the wiki and made the log_level "verbose"
51 >> did a restart and just got a lot of 'database: get song' lines.
52 >>
53 >> I've heard this from others. mpd known to change it's behavior from
54 >> boot to boot.
55 >
56 > Without some form of sane output message or a well-known bug, it's not
57 > possible to diagnose what you might be running into.
58 >
59 > I personally have never heard of mpd doing different things between boots.
60 > Changing configs and not restarting mpd - yes. Random changes - no.
61 >
62 > mpd works just fine for me and is rock-solid here.
63 >
64 > --
65 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
66 >
67 >

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