Doing it again. Only change is to tell the conf to get debuggy. Unit boots; last three lines before login:
Starting Music Player Daemon Starting local Stopping Music Player Daemon This after several successful boots with no problem. Nothing in mpd.log A clue? Seems to occur when I'm mobile(this is an Asus netbook BTW) and I have to enter the BIOS to turn the wifi on(I know, there's a key to do this but it doesn't work, yet). If you think it would help to login to my machine, I'm game. Send me the details, pls On 9/3/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:04:06 Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > NAFC. >> >> New anagram for me. Not As Far...? > > Not A F..king Clue > > :-) >> >> >But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you. >> > I'll send you a public key. >> >> Can't grok. If I have an "account" on this box it's news to me. How >> and what would you be looking for? > > Well, you basically said "mpd doesn't work. Why?" > > To which the best answer is "I haven't the foggiest idea". But, if I could > log > into the machine in question and run a shell, I'd be in an excellent > position > to give a sane answer. > > Don't read too much into it. I felt like taking the mickey out of someone > and > today was your turn :-) > >> > Or, you could look in your logs and tell us what you see. You might have >> > to tell mpd to start logging errors first. >> >> Not doing it now. I followed the wiki and made the log_level "verbose" >> did a restart and just got a lot of 'database: get song' lines. >> >> I've heard this from others. mpd known to change it's behavior from >> boot to boot. > > Without some form of sane output message or a well-known bug, it's not > possible to diagnose what you might be running into. > > I personally have never heard of mpd doing different things between boots. > Changing configs and not restarting mpd - yes. Random changes - no. > > mpd works just fine for me and is rock-solid here. > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > >
