[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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