[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#742833: Bug#742833: mpd: fails to start when using systemd

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi,

> Here's the output of 'systemctl status mpd.service':
> 
>    mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
>       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service; disabled)
>       Active: inactive (dead)

and that's the issue you see: mpd is not configured to start as a system
service on boot ("disabled"). To change that, run 'sudo systemctl enable
mpd.service' (and if mpd was not started, as above, start it now).

I'm not sure why it's not enabled; unless you changed START_MPD to
something other than 'true' in /etc/default/mpd (at which point it
wouldn't have started with sysvinit), it should have been
configured to start with systemd as well...

> Appart from mpdscribble trying to connect without much success nothing
> in syslog. And this fact makes me realize that mpdscribble should
> probably depend on mpd to start ???

If both are running as system services, yes probably. But with per-user
pulseaudio being the default nowadays, it might be a better idea to run
mpd as your own user, from your X session (this happens automatically if
you have an ~/.mpdconf and mpd not running already)...

Florian