[mythtv-users] LIRC still giving me grief. Hauppage grey remote. HELP!

[Jim Paris]

> the last 2
> lines are the crux of the matter, i think.

Yes.

> Oct 27 22:39:52 mythbox kernel: _devfs_append_entry(0): dir: "lirc" is not a directory
> Oct 27 22:39:52 mythbox kernel: devfs_register(lirc/0): could not append to parent, err: -20

You probably have some stray file "/dev/lirc".  Remove that.
Or, if it doesn't exist, make a directory there.

-jim