MPD plays smoothly, I can pause for less than ~two minutes and it resumes smoothly. But after waiting several minutes I am unable to resume playing. Client losts connection, "/etc/init.d/mpd restart" stops but can't restart the daemon and I have to do "killall -9 mpd" to kill the beast (usually doesn't work without -9). "killall" is used because there are three mpd instances instead of one. I really can't figure out what's going on. I turned on verbose logging and still can't find anything. Another strange thing: After starting mpd from init.d it starts ~three instances. But after stopping the daemon, one instance is still there and one turns itself to "[mpd] <defunct>" and sits there until "killall -9 mpd". This *also* isn't fully reproducible. I found out that multiple instances are generated if MPD resumed paused file. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play something with MPD 2. Hit "pause" (or better "stop") and wait several minutes 3. In the meantime you can watch the logs and do "ps aux|grep mpd" Actual Results: Hangs and needs restart Expected Results: Should act normally I use mpdscribble-0.2.12 # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.7-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Timestamp of tree: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LINGUAS="pl en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg midi mmap mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png posix pppd python readline reflection sdl session spl sse ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vcd vorbis x86 xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Can you please echo what use flags are being used for that individual package and would you also try MPD's svn to see if this problem persists? This could be a problem that has since been resolved.
Also, if you're serious about helping to find this problem, you could obtain a gdb bittrace for us, thanks.
Please try subversion, this problem probably doesn't exist there.
works for me, no action for two months here, reopen if the problem persists with mpd-0.14.0_pre20080120
