[mythtv-users] lirc problem after crash

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Nov 5 23:56:58 EST 2003


MythTV at C4L wrote:

> I've been playing around with TVOUT & PVR350 and I've gotten the system
> to lock up a couple of times.  I think now I've lost some files and
> mythfrontend is complaining about lirc when it starts:
> 
> mythfrontend -v
> 2003-11-05 19:00:02 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> Failed to create lirc socket for mythtv
> 
> I'm not sure which "file or directory" is missing.  Here's a look at
> /dev/lirc*
> 
> srw-rw-rw-    1 root     root            0 Nov  5 17:59 /dev/lircd=
> 
> /dev/lirc:
> total 0
> crw-rw----    1 root     mythtv    61,   0 Dec 31  1969 0
> 
> I've rerun "make install" from the my mythtv build directory.  I've got
> lirc compiled into mythfrontend.  I'm at a loss.  Any ideas how I can
> find out what is missing?
> 

I take it you've rebooted at some point?  Are you auto-starting lircd 
when you reboot?

-JAC



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