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

Jeff Clemens teedub303 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 19:08:02 UTC 2005


Adding the SymLink worked, but I haven't tried rebooting since I've done
that.
 That seems to be a new update to the guide. I'll try it when I get home and
see if that helps when rebooting.
 Thanks all...
 Jeff

 On 9/29/05, Ib Uhrskov <ib at uhrskov.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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