Bug#810218: [Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#810218: mpd fails to open audio device when started by init script

Hi Arian, > I have mpd set up to use alsa and use my desktop user 'arian'. > When mpd is started by debian's init script, it is unable to open the alsa > device: > > Jan 07 11:42 : alsa_mixer: Failed to read mixer for 'My ALSA Device': failed > to attach to default: No such file or directory

Bug#810218: [Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#810218: mpd fails to open audio device when started by init script

On 2016/01/08 00:47, Florian Schlichting wrote: > I think you need to set > > group "audio" If that solves the problem, then Arian's bug report was wrong. He said the user is in group "audio". Specifying the group manually would discard membership in all other