conky - package missing dependency on MPD
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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conky (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Stefan Ebner |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: conky
Source package: 1.5.1-1
1) Release via lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04
2) Version via 'apt-cache policy conky':
Installed: 1.5.1-1
Candidate: 1.5.1-1
Version table:
*** 1.5.1-1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3) Expected
To run conky with no reported terminal errors
4) What happened instead
conky started with the following terminal errors:
"Conky: MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Connection refused" in a continuous loop
4.1) Solution:
(Thanks to kaivalagi in the Hardy development forum: http://
The MPD (Music Player Daemon) needs to be installed with conky. There is no dependency of MPD listed in apt-manager.
I removed all references to MPD in the .conkyrc as supplied in the Hardy distro, but the errors persisted. Installation of MPD solved the problem. This points to a solution of adding an MPD dependency to the conky distro package for Hardy.
I think that not having the mpd daemon reduces the functionality of conky (?).
Thank you for you bug report.
I will take care for this but it may take longer since there are also other bugs that need to be fixed.