Debian Bug report logs - #472401
"why is xdm playing Death Metal?"

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: "why is xdm playing Death Metal?"

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:07:28 -0400

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Package: mpd
Version: 0.13.1-3
Severity: minor

I get out of the shower and hear horrible screeching growling tinny noise
coming from my bedroom. Some form of something resembling music, but 
a) I didn't have the radio on and b) I don't own anything like that. WTF?

I realize the noise is coming from my laptop. Which is sitting at an xdm
login prompt. Which makes sense because it'd crashed for some reason and
I had typed in the LUKS passphrase and left it booting in disgust.
However, a laptop screeching death metal while sitting at a login
prompt == less sense than I'm used to from my computing equipment.

Eventual diagnosis after I logged in and started ncmpc and stopped my
ears ringing:

* It was playing a radio station that I rarely listen too, which was at
  one of the more horrible parts of its pretty eclectic program.
* Last time I listened to that radio statio had to have been a month
  ago.
* I generally don't keep mpd running on my laptop, since it prevents
  catting files to /dev/audio and such, and since the laptop speakers
  suck.
* I must have killed mpd while it was playing this radio station, a
  month ago. And when I finally rebooted the laptop, it started back up
  on boot, remembered its place, and treated me to a musical experience
  I won't soon forget.

Suggestion: Store timestamp with state.
            Auto-pause if current time - timestamp > SomeConfigurableValue.

Workaround: @reboot mpc pause

Silver lining: At least it wasn't Christian Death Metal.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mpd depends on:
ii  adduser                3.106             add and remove users and groups
ii  libao2                 0.8.8-4           Cross Platform Audio Output Librar
ii  libasound2             1.0.16-2          ALSA library
ii  libaudiofile0          0.2.6-7           Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.22-2          Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.22-2          Avahi common library
ii  libc6                  2.7-9             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfaad0               2.6.1-2           freeware Advanced Audio Decoder - 
ii  libflac8               1.2.1-1.2         Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libid3tag0             0.15.1b-10        ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libjack0               0.109.2-1.1       JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libmad0                0.15.1b-3         MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libmikmod2             3.1.11-a-6        A portable sound library
ii  libmpcdec3             1.2.2-1           Musepack (MPC) format library
ii  libogg0                1.1.3-3           Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libpulse0              0.9.9-1           PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0         0.1.2-5           audio rate conversion library
ii  libshout3              2.2.2-2           MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming
ii  libvorbis0a            1.2.0.dfsg-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2          1.2.0.dfsg-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3         1.2.0.dfsg-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

mpd recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Belated realization: xdm is SO death metal.

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #10 received at 472401@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: 472401@bugs.debian.org

Subject: mpd pause state not preserved on unclean shutdown

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:24:43 -0400

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Some more testing suggests that if mpd is paused, then the daemon is
either killed manually (and not using mpd --kill or SIGTERM), or the
system crashes, when mpd starts back up it will forget that it was
paused. This does not happen if the init script or mpd --kill is allowed
to stop it, but that doesn't happen if the system crashes..

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #15 received at 472401-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>

To: 472401-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fixed in 0.14

Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 07:16:22 +0100

Version: 0.14-1

MPD 0.14 saves the state file every few minutes.

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