The mpd service not working

[ashishbinu]

I tried the command systemctl --user start mpd.service and it is not working for some reason.

❯ systemctl --user start mpd.service
Job for mpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl --user status mpd.service" and "journalctl --user -xe" for details.

Log shown by systemctl --user status mpd.service

❯ systemctl --user status mpd.service
● mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/mpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2021-05-09 17:10:11 IST; 10min ago
       Docs: man:mpd(1)
             man:mpd.conf(5)
    Process: 274390 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 274390 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

May 09 17:10:11 Toshiba systemd[1238]: Starting Music Player Daemon...
May 09 17:10:11 Toshiba mpd[274390]: exception: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded): Failed to bind socket: Address already in use
May 09 17:10:11 Toshiba mpd[274390]: exception: Decoder plugin 'wildmidi' is unavailable: configuration file does not exist: /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg
May 09 17:10:11 Toshiba mpd[274390]: exception: Failed to open '/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db': No such file or directory
May 09 17:10:11 Toshiba mpd[274390]: exception: Failed to open database plugin; Can't create db file in "/var/lib/mpd": Permission denied
May 09 17:10:11 Toshiba systemd[1238]: mpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 09 17:10:11 Toshiba systemd[1238]: mpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 09 17:10:11 Toshiba systemd[1238]: Failed to start Music Player Daemon.

System Information OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 Kernel : 5.12.1-2-MANJARO

[ashishbinu]

I tried doing systemctl start mpd.service and it gave no error. And it is working. README.md should be updated.

[Link1J]

The reason you get an error with --user is becuase mpd is trying to create a file in a location it can't. Follow this guide to setup mpd correctly. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Music_Player_Daemon#Configure_the_location_of_files_and_directories

And clearly you can't read error messages, because it even tells you in the log you posted what happened.