On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I ran pacman -Syu just now after a gap of almost 3 weeks. After the > update I > > restarted my system and now I can't play audio. Even mpd doesn't start > up. > > alsamixer shows Card: PulseAudio and Chip:PulseAudio. Please help me as I > > can't do work on my computer with listening to music. :( I have > pulseaudio > > installed just because gdm needs it. Other than that I use alsa. > > > > What does your mpd log in /var/log/mpd/mpd.log say? > The last entry in mpd.log is from 02 oct. I doubt that will help. However when I try to start mpd I get this error, [papul@archlinux ~]$ sudo rc.d start mpd :: Starting Music Player Daemon [BUSY] /etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 9910 Aborted /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf &>/dev/null