On 18 February 2015 at 22:22, Nikita Karetnikov <nik...@karetnikov.org> wrote: > I've tried various options, but mpd always fails with a permission error. > Here's one example: > > services.mpd.enable = true; > services.mpd.dataDir = "/home/nikita/dotfiles/mpd/.mpd"; > services.mpd.musicDirectory = "/home/nikita/music"; > > Both directories exist. > > $ journalctl -u mpd.service > > Feb 19 09:11:22 mu systemd[1]: Starting Music Player Daemon... > Feb 19 09:11:22 mu systemd[1]: mpd.service: control process exited, > code=exited status=1 > Feb 19 09:11:22 mu systemd[1]: Failed to start Music Player Daemon. > Feb 19 09:11:22 mu systemd[1]: Unit mpd.service entered failed state. > Feb 19 09:11:22 mu systemd[1]: mpd.service failed. > Feb 19 09:11:22 mu mpd-pre-start[15264]: mkdir: cannot create directory > ‘/home/nikita’: Permission denied > > Why is it even trying to create "/home/nikita"?
Hi Nikita, Looking at the source (nixos/modules/services/audio/mpd.nix), it looks like the mpd service is designed to run as the mpd user. If you are willing to go with that design, I guess you should not set services.mpd.dataDir, and make sure the mpd user has read access to your music directory. (It tries to create /home/nikita because that's where its dataDir is supposed to go.) If you'd rather mpd be run as your own user, I don't think NixOS has support for that, so the easiest solution is probably to add mpd to environment.systemPackages and just start mpd yourself. James _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
