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

[Steve Daniels]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Lucien D.
> Sent: 27 March 2006 22:51
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] power failure - now lirc stopped working
> 
> This may be better placed on a lirc-centric mailing list, but I'll try
> here first.
> 
> everything has been working brillantly up until last night.  During
> the night the power went off in my room while my comp was running.
> When I got everything booted back up it appears that lirc has stopped
> working.
> 
> I've done all the debugging I can think of, everything seems to be
> working as it should.  No error messages in the log, the modules are
> all there, the dev files are all there, the daemon is running.  But
> when I run irw there is no output.  I checked that batteries (made
> that mistake before) and they were fine.  I am running out of ideas,
> so any help would be appreciated.
> 
> system:
> gentoo linux
> kernel 2.6.15 (gentoo-sources)

Don't forget that every time you update your kernel you're going to have to
restart, and then re-install the correct version of lirc for the kernel.
This one got me recently. One night a week and a half ago, I updated my
kernel on a fedora core system. I promptly fell asleep and thus didn't
restart into the new kernel and install the new version of lirc to match the
kernel.
Then this weekend just gone, I shut down the machine, to install a new hard
drive, and low and behold when the machine booted back up, my remotes
wouldn't work.

Took me a while to figure that one out.. But I'll never forget it!

> hauppauge pvr-250
> lirc-0.8.0
> 
> Thanks,
> Lucien

It's worth a try reinstalling/updating lirc just to make sure, it won't
overwrite your config (well it didn't on my system..)

Steve Daniels