mpd refuses connections

[Peter Shultz]

On a clean install (apt remove --purge mpd && apt install mpd) with no music files or playlists, mpd refuses connections from localhost. The log is empty.

Could this have something to do with the recent systemd changes in versions 0.19.20 and 0.19.21? It was working just fine until a couple days ago.

$ systemctl start mpd
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
Authentication is required to start 'mpd.service'.
Authenticating as: ******* (******)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===

$ ls -al /var/log/mpd/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 mpd audio 4096 Dec 15 10:42 .
drwxrwxr-x 20 root syslog 4096 Dec 15 10:41 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 15 10:42 mpd.log

$ mpc -h localhost
mpd error: Connection refused
$ mpc -h 127.0.0.1
mpd error: Connection refused

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Zesty Zapus (development branch)
Release: 17.04

$ apt-cache policy mpd
mpd:
  Installed: 0.19.21-1
  Candidate: 0.19.21-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.19.21-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Peter Shultz (pashultz)]

Ah, yes. It works again after downgrading to 0.19.19-1.

[Florian Schlichting (fschlich)]

Could this be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849726 ? In that case, it has probably been fixed on the systemd side by now.