Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hi Martin, > > Martin Becze <mjbe...@riseup.net> 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? `/var/run/mpd' and subsequent user folders belong to root:root. Only `/var/run/mpd/mpd' belong to mpd:mpd. They where recreated belonging to root:root after deleting them. > > Thanks, > Ludo’.