Hi,
I’m giving a try to mopidy and encoutering issues to start the service. The machine is running archlinux, up to date:
uname -a
Linux zinj 5.16.8-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 08 Feb 2022 21:21:08 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I followed the documentation on https://docs.mopidy.com and installed mopidy from the arch community repository.
The configuration is as follow:
sudo mopidyctl config
Running "/usr/bin/mopidy --config /usr/share/mopidy/conf.d:/etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf config" as user mopidy
INFO 2022-02-15 10:51:31,493 [57666:MainThread] mopidy.__main__
Starting Mopidy 3.2.0
INFO 2022-02-15 10:51:31,504 [57666:MainThread] mopidy.config
Loading config from builtin defaults
INFO 2022-02-15 10:51:31,505 [57666:MainThread] mopidy.config
Loading config from file:///etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf
INFO 2022-02-15 10:51:31,505 [57666:MainThread] mopidy.config
Loading config from command line options
WARNING 2022-02-15 10:51:31,507 [57666:MainThread] mopidy.config
Ignoring config section 'local' because no matching extension was found
INFO 2022-02-15 10:51:31,565 [57666:MainThread] mopidy.__main__
Enabled extensions: stream, http, softwaremixer, m3u, file
INFO 2022-02-15 10:51:31,565 [57666:MainThread] mopidy.__main__
Disabled extensions: none
[core]
cache_dir = /var/cache/mopidy
config_dir = /etc/mopidy
data_dir = /var/lib/mopidy
max_tracklist_length = 10000
restore_state = false
[logging]
verbosity = 4
format = %(levelname)-8s %(asctime)s [%(process)d:%(threadName)s] %(name)s\n %(message)s
color = true
config_file = /etc/mopidy/logging.conf
[audio]
mixer = software
mixer_volume =
output = autoaudiosink
buffer_time =
[proxy]
scheme =
hostname =
port =
username =
password =
[file]
enabled = true
media_dirs =
$XDG_MUSIC_DIR|Music
~/|Home
excluded_file_extensions =
.directory
.html
.jpeg
.jpg
.log
.nfo
.pdf
.png
.txt
.zip
show_dotfiles = false
follow_symlinks = false
metadata_timeout = 1000
[http]
enabled = true
hostname = 127.0.0.1
port = 6680
zeroconf = Mopidy HTTP server on $hostname
allowed_origins =
csrf_protection = true
default_app = mopidy
[m3u]
enabled = true
base_dir =
default_encoding = latin-1
default_extension = .m3u8
playlists_dir = /var/lib/mopidy/playlists
[softwaremixer]
enabled = true
[stream]
enabled = true
protocols =
http
https
mms
rtmp
rtmps
rtsp
metadata_blacklist =
timeout = 5000
And the dependencies:
sudo mopidyctl deps
Running "/usr/bin/mopidy --config /usr/share/mopidy/conf.d:/etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf deps" as user mopidy
INFO 2022-02-15 11:01:10,044 [57724:MainThread] mopidy.__main__
Starting Mopidy 3.2.0
Loading config from builtin defaults
INFO 2022-02-15 11:01:10,056 [57724:MainThread] mopidy.config
Loading config from file:///etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf
INFO 2022-02-15 11:01:10,057 [57724:MainThread] mopidy.config
Loading config from command line options
WARNING 2022-02-15 11:01:10,059 [57724:MainThread] mopidy.config
Ignoring config section 'local' because no matching extension was found
INFO 2022-02-15 11:01:10,116 [57724:MainThread] mopidy.__main__
Enabled extensions: stream, http, file, softwaremixer, m3u
INFO 2022-02-15 11:01:10,116 [57724:MainThread] mopidy.__main__
Disabled extensions: none
Executable: /usr/bin/mopidy
Platform: Linux-5.16.8-arch1-1-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
Python: CPython 3.10.2 from /usr/lib/python3.10
Mopidy: 3.2.0 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
Pykka: 3.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
requests: 2.27.0 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
chardet: 4.0.0 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
idna: 3.3 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
idna: 3.3 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
urllib3: 1.26.8 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
setuptools: 59.3.0 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
tornado: 6.1 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
GStreamer: 1.20.0.0 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi
Detailed information:
Python wrapper: python-gi 3.42.0
Relevant elements:
Found:
uridecodebin
souphttpsrc
appsrc
alsasink
osssink
oss4sink
pulsesink
id3demux
id3v2mux
lamemp3enc
mpegaudioparse
mpg123audiodec
vorbisdec
vorbisenc
vorbisparse
oggdemux
oggmux
oggparse
flacdec
flacparse
shout2send
Not found:
flump3dec
mad
The mopidy.service file is as follow:
[Unit]
Description=Mopidy music server
After=avahi-daemon.service
After=dbus.service
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
After=nss-lookup.target
After=pulseaudio.service
After=remote-fs.target
After=sound.target
[Service]
User=mopidy
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mopidy --config /usr/share/mopidy/conf.d:/etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
When starting the mopidy service with sudo systemctl start mopidy.service
, I get the following logs:
sudo journalctl -f -u mopidy
fév 15 10:16:00 zinj systemd[1]: Started Mopidy music server.
fév 15 10:16:00 zinj systemd[57275]: mopidy.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
fév 15 10:16:00 zinj systemd[57275]: mopidy.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/mopidy: No such process
fév 15 10:16:00 zinj systemd[1]: mopidy.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
fév 15 10:16:00 zinj systemd[1]: mopidy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
I try to look for it on the web, but couldn’t find anything that I could understand or use.
Just to check, I tried to launch mopidy with the mopidy user (sudo -u mopidy /usr/bin/mopidy
) with success.
Any help or idea is very much welcomed.