On 06/10/2011 10:29 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On 06/10/2011 10:21 PM, Richard Schütz wrote: >> Am 10.06.2011 18:47, schrieb Madhurya Kakati: >>> Hello, >>> Recently mpd has stopped working. It doesn't start up at boot and when i >>> run "rc.d start mpd" I get this error /etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 24502 >>> Aborted /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf&>/dev/null. >>> I am using gnome3(if thats somehow causing the problem.) I believe its >>> due to some ALSA pulseaudio mixup but I am not sure. >>> However if I run "sudo mpd" I get this output: >>> [papul@papuldesktop ~]$ sudo mpd >>> output: No "audio_output" defined in config file >>> output: Attempt to detect audio output device >>> output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device >>> output: Successfully detected a alsa audio device >>> >>> and after that if I run "mpc play" I get this: >>> [papul@papuldesktop ~]$ mpc play >>> Metallica - The Unforgiven II >>> [paused] #4/8 0:00/6:36 (0%) >>> volume: n/a repeat: off random: off single: off consume: off >>> ERROR: problems opening audio device >>> >>> Please help coz I haven't been able to listen to music for quite >>> sometime now. :( >> Did you try to configure MPD to use PulseAudio then? (see [1]) >> >> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPD >> > how do I check if I am using pulseaudio or alsa or whatever else there is? Uncommenting ALSA audio output section in /etc/mpd.conf solved the problem. Thanks for the help.
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