[mythtv-users] Lircd starting too late?

[Marc Tousignant]

> Hi,
> 
> I've been experiencing a few problems with LIRC starting too late from
> cold boots (or after a hard reset), in that Xorg and Mythfrontend
> start up before the lircd process so mythfrontend is unable to connect
> to the lircd device. Restarting Mythfrontend fixes it, but it'd be
> nice to figure out a permenant fix. The other symptom is that
> mythlcdserver is unable to make use of the VFD in my case unless I
> kill and restart mythlcdserver.
> 
> I'm running Mythbuntu 9.10 with Avenard's packages (didn't work with
> the Mythbuntu debs either), and replaced XFCE with Ratpoison. The
> remove uses the lirc_mceusb2, and the VFD uses the lirc_imon kmod.
> 
> Here's what Mythfrontend says:
> 
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> 2009-07-06 20:03:05.923 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding
> messages
> 
> I can't see anything untoward in dmesg or messages, and chkconfig
> shows that lirc should trigger when entering runlevel 2 through to 5:
> 
> # chkconfig --list | grep lirc
> lirc                      0:off  1:off  2:on   3:on   4:on   5:on
> 6:off
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers
> 
> Ben
> _______________________________________________

Whats your dmesg report?
Maybe put a delay on myth to confirm, or restart the frontend/X, not the
entire machine, as that would be pointless.

Marc