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

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:31:35 +0100

Hi,

Simon <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On a recent pull, MPD will not start any more.
>
> Herd status reports:
>
> Status of mpd:
>   It is stopped.
>   It is disabled.
>   Provides (mpd).
>   Requires (user-processes).
>   Conflicts with ().
>   Will be respawned.
>   Last respawned on Mon Nov 23 10:22:07+0100 2020.
>
>
> Reading my messages, I find:
>
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Respawning mpd.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been started.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]: Service mpd has been disabled.
> Nov 23 10:22:07 localhost shepherd[1]:   (Respawning too fast.)
>
>
> Unfortunately, there are no further messages as to why the service is
> disabled, or why the daemon is respawning too often.

Does /var/log/mpd/mpd.log or similar contain useful info?

Could you share your ‘mpd-configuration’?

There have been two changes recently, which fixed the mpd system test,
but perhaps they introduced other issues:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log?id=bb124f6e9c0af0a23736f233c2ea2c9c9b4a40a6

Thanks for reporting the issue,
Ludo’.