If you use ‘lightdm’ to log on with and Debian jessie/testing, you will have a problem at your next reboot! Yesterdays upgrade of ‘lightdm’ broke the configuration, with bug #762211.

The solution is to do sudo leafpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and comment out both of these two lines ...

For several days now my MPD has been very choppy, dropping connections and having great difficulty in starting it again. So I finally decided to look at ‘mpd.log’ which is in my ‘/home/boudiccas/.mpd/mpd.log’. And in it I found this -

Nov 09 17:56 : output: Failed ...