On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > Usually I put in hashes ('#') into the /etc/rc.d/mpd script to check > what output there is destroyed. Could be useful. > > cheers! > mar77i > After adding '#' in /etc/rc.d/mpd here's what I get when I try to start it, [papul@archlinux ~]$ sudo rc.d start mpd :: Starting Music Player Daemon [BUSY] listen: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded) output: No "audio_output" defined in config file output: Attempt to detect audio output device output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused alsa: Error opening default ALSA device: Connection refused output: Attempting to detect a oss audio device oss: Error opening OSS device "/dev/dsp": No such file or directory oss: Error opening OSS device "/dev/sound/dsp": No such file or directory output: Attempting to detect a pulse audio device mpd: src/output/pulse_output_plugin.c:400: pulse_output_wait_connection: Assertion `po->mainloop != ((void *)0)' failed. /etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 27833 Aborted /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf [FAIL]