Re: mpd not coming up when booting

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:08:53 +0100
Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I've installed the mpd rc.d script and added "mpd=YES" to rc.conf.
> 
> During boot, I get:
> Starting mpd.
> music directory is not a directory: "/archive/music/music"
> playlist directory is not a directory:
> "/archive/music/music/playlists" Failed to load database: Failed to
> open database file "/archive/music/music/.mpddb": Permission denied
> database: Couldn't stat parent directory of db file
> "/archive/music/music/.mpddb": Permission denied /etc/rc.d/mpd exited
> with code 1
> 
> # ls -ald /archive 
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  512 Jan 11 17:59 /archive
> # ls -ald /archive/music 
> lrwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  21 Jul 27  2009 /archive/music
> -> /disk/3/archive/music
> # ls -ald /archive/music/
> drwxr-xr-x  13 wiz  archive  512 Feb 28 20:01 /archive/music/
> # ls -ald /archive/music/music 
> drwxr-xr-x  294 wiz  archive  7168 Mar  1 11:27 /archive/music/music
> 
> When I start the script manually after the boot, it works fine.
> I thought it might be some mounting issue, so I added "mountall" to
> REQUIRE in /etc/rc.d/mpd, but that didn't change a thing.
> 
> Any ideas what could go wrong here?
>  Thomas

Maybe you need to mount some filesystems early during boot. Add
something like this in /etc/rc.conf:

critical_filesystems_local="${critical_filesystems_local} /opt"

Or perhaps permission problems? On my machine mpd runs as user nobody,
this is from my mpd.conf:

music_directory         "/opt/music"
playlist_directory      "/opt/music/Playlists_mpd"
log_file                "/opt/music/.mpd/mpd.log"
error_file              "/opt/music/.mpd/mpd.error"
db_file                 "/opt/music/.mpd/mpd.db"
state_file              "/opt/music/.mpd/mpdstate"
pid_file                "/opt/music/.mpd/mpd.pid"

user                    "nobody"

Hence permission on directories needs to be something like:

atom$ ls -ld /opt/music/.mpd
drwxr-xr-x  2 nobody  nobody  512 Mar 13 09:38 /opt/music/.mpd