myMPD as user?

[manuvazquez]

Hi,

I'm trying to run myMPD as user with no luck. MPD is running fine after

systemctl --user start mpd

but when I run

systemctl --user start mympd

and then

systemctl --user status mympd

I get

systemd[760]: mympd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
systemd[760]: mympd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
systemd[760]: mympd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[760]: Failed to start myMPD server daemon.

Also, if I just run mympd from the command-line, I get

❯ mympd
12:08:21 ERROR    mympd           Cache dir: creating "/var/cache/mympd" failed
12:08:21 ERROR    mympd           File exists
Exiting erroneous, thank you for using myMPD

I don't know if that is relevant or no, but early on I was able to run myMPD as root (along with MPD also as root) without a glitch. Also, in the documentation it is mentioned that myMPD is meant to be run as user. So it's probably me doing something wrong.

Any clue?

[jcorporation]

The user unit starts myMPD with different config and cache dir and some environment variables set.

ExecStart=@CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_BINDIR@/mympd -w %h/.config/mympd -a %h/.cache/mympd
Environment="MYMPD_HTTP_PORT=8080"
Environment="MYMPD_SSL_PORT=8443"

• @CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_BINDIR@: is usually /usr/bin/mympd
• %h: is your home directory

Try to start myMPD as user with this arguments and evironment or/and try journalctl -u mympd to investigate the log.

[manuvazquez]

Thanks for the quick reply!!

journalctl --user -u mympd returns

systemd[760]: Started myMPD server daemon.
(mympd)[8742]: mympd.service: Changing to the requested working directory failed: No such file or directory
(mympd)[8742]: mympd.service: Failed at step CHDIR spawning /usr/bin/mympd: No such file or directory
systemd[760]: mympd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=200/CHDIR
systemd[760]: mympd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

On the other hand,

❯ mympd -w ~/.config/mympd -a ~/.cache/mympd
08:17:42 NOTICE   mympd           Cache dir: "/home/manu/.cache/mympd"
08:17:42 NOTICE   mympd           Work dir: "/home/manu/.config/mympd"
08:17:42 NOTICE   mympd           Config dir: "/home/manu/.config/mympd/config"
08:17:42 NOTICE   mympd           Setting loglevel to NOTICE
08:17:42 NOTICE   mympd           Starting myMPD 18.2.1
ec78c  1 mongoose.c:7513:mg_open_listen bind: 13
ec78c  1 mongoose.c:4824:mg_listen      Failed: http://[::]:80, errno 13
08:17:42 EMERG    mympd           Can't bind to http://[::]:80
Exiting erroneous, thank you for using myMPD

Just in case, my mpd.conf is fairly minimal

music_directory		"/mnt/data/musica"

playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"

db_file "~/.mpd/database"

state_file "~/.mpd/state"

sticker_file			"~/.mpd/sticker.sql"

metadata_to_use	"albumartist,artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"

auto_update	"yes"
input {
        plugin "curl"
}

audio_output {
	type		"pipewire"
	name		"PipeWire Sound Server"
}

[jcorporation]

(mympd)[8742]: mympd.service: Failed at step CHDIR spawning /usr/bin/mympd: No such file or directory

Is there a .config directory in your home directory? If not create it.

ec78c 1 mongoose.c:4824:mg_listen Failed: http://[::]:80, errno 13

You must set the environment for the listening ports, a normal user process can not bind to ports lower than 1024.

Remove eventually created config: rm -rf ~/.config/mympd ~/.cache/mympd

Try again:

export MYMPD_HTTP_PORT=8080
export MYMPD_SSL_PORT=8443
mympd -w ~/.config/mympd -a ~/.cache/mympd

[manuvazquez]

That did the trick!! Thank you so much!! ...and nice software, by the way :)