[mythtv-users] power failure - now lirc stopped working

[Lucien D.]

> > srw-rw-rw-  1 root root  0 Mar 30 23:49 /dev/lircd
> >
> > /dev/lirc:
> > total 0
> > crw-rw----  1 root root 61, 0 Mar 30 23:52 0
> >
>
> Not sure I completely understand what you have here.
>
> I would have expected something like mine :
>
> ls -l /dev/lirc*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     5 Mar 22 12:59 /dev/lirc -> lirc0
> crw-------  1 root root 61, 0 Mar 22 12:59 /dev/lirc0
> crw-------  1 root root 61, 1 Mar 22 12:59 /dev/lirc1
> crw-------  1 root root 61, 2 Mar 22 12:59 /dev/lirc2
> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Mar 22 12:59 /dev/lircd
>
> There are multiple character devices because I have 3 PVRs with i2c
> remote interfaces.
>
> Note the socket device just as you show, but I don't understand what
> you are showing for the character device, it should be /dev/lirc and/
> or /dev/lirc0, if it is simply called "0" in the directory /dev/lirc
> it is not going to work, at least in my limited experience.
>
> Actually this could depend on your LIRC options. You should have
> somewhere a configuration file for lircd, it might be /etc/sysconfig/
> lircd or it might be /etc/conf.d/lircd, depending on your system. In
> any case it might have "LIRCD_OPTIONS" which should point to the
> correct character device, otherwise I think it defaults to /dev/lirc.
>
> You might try making links, "ln -s /dev/lirc/0 /dev/lirc" and "ln -s /
> dev/lirc/0 /dev/lirc0"
>
> Then restart lircd and see if you still get the error. This will at
> least put the devices where they are in my (working) system, which is
> all I have to compare it with right now.
>

Its set to point at /dev/lirc/0 in /etc/conf.d/lircd, and I tried
forcing the device when running irrecord.  Remember, this was all
working fine before the sudden power outage.

> Just a stupid question: I'm assuming this is a 2.6 kernel udev
> system, am I assuming too much ?
>

nope, thats right.

> This is now a quest, we *will* get this working :-)
>
>
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