Subject: bug#44820: MPD fails after respawning too often

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:05:26 +0100

Hi Martin,

Martin Becze <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I also ran into this problem. Here is the relevnat part of
> /var/run/mpd/<mpd-user>/log
>
>> exception: Failed to create pid file "/var/run/mpd/<mpd-user>/pid": Permission denied
>
> A quick dirty fix is just to chown the /var/run/mpd folder so that mpd
> can create its pid file.

So was the ownership of /var/run/mpd/$USER wrong?

Thanks,
Ludo’.