[mythtv-users] lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

[Ib Uhrskov]

Jeff Clemens wrote:
> So, with a recent software upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), a few 
> problems seem to have been introduced into my system.  I'm not 
> entirely sure what the cause is, and was wondering if someone else is 
> having similar trouble.
>  
> First, the specs on my system:
>  
> Its a Pentium3 Fedora Core 3 (Kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) system with a 
> PVR350 - I use the tv-out on the tv tuner card.
>  
> When the system boots up, if you do a /sbin/service --status-all, it 
> shows lircd running fine.  As soon as you start a program that gets 
> input from lirc (MythTV, irw, etc.) the remote does not seem to work 
> (irw just returns to the command line with no output).
>  
> At this point, if you do a service --status-all you get the following:
>  
> lircd dead but subsys locked
>  
> I can restart lircd (/sbin/service lircd restart) and it restarts 
> successfully.  status-all shows that it's running, but again, nothing 
> happens when you run irw.
>  
> I've set my system up per jarod's  Fedora 3 guide, and everything 
> worked fine until the upgrade to the current kernel.
>  
> I also noticed that for some reason, there is no /dev/lirc  There is a 
> /dev/lirc0 and a /dev/lircd.  In /var/log/messages I see:
>  
> Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd: lircd shutdown failed
> Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: lircd(any) ready
> Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd: lircd startup succeeded
> Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2 [2034]: accepted new client on 
> /dev/lircd
> Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: could not get file 
> information for /dev/lirc
> Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: default_init(): No such 
> file or directory
> Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: caught signal
> Sep 28 14:42:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[2038]: session opened for 
> user root by (uid=0)
> Sep 28 14:42:02 localhost crond(pam_unix)[2038]: session closed for 
> user root
>  
>  
> Any ideas?
>
Hi Jeff

Checkout Jarod guide. I noticed after I did the upgrade, the patching of 
udev from Jarod http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#lirc (scroll down 
to Update) was gone. I applied the patch, rebootet and lirc worked again.

/ib