Arch Linux

Description: The service file shipped with this MPD package forces the User to mpd (the upstream service file does not include that directive). This breaks the "user" option in mpd.conf. Apparently that change was introduced to fix https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42089, so while it might be necessary it would be nice to document this because `systemctl status` does not show that the service is running as the `mpd` user. It is therefore impossible to figure out why modifying MPDs config file results in permission denied errors.


Additional info:
* package version(s) 0.19.9-3t
* config and/or log files etc.

My /etc/mpd.conf is attached

The output of systemctl status mpd is

● mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mo 2015-04-13 15:09:33 CEST; 2s ago
Process: 2731 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 2731 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 13 15:09:33 slartibartfass systemd[1]: Started Music Player Daemon.
Apr 13 15:09:33 slartibartfass systemd[1]: Starting Music Player Daemon...
Apr 13 15:09:33 slartibartfass mpd[2731]: errno: failed to open log file "/home/wieland/.mpd/mpd.log" (config line 4): Permission denied
Apr 13 15:09:33 slartibartfass systemd[1]: mpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 13 15:09:33 slartibartfass systemd[1]: Unit mpd.service entered failed state.
Apr 13 15:09:33 slartibartfass systemd[1]: mpd.service failed.

Removing the "User" line makes it work again.