[mythtv-users] Lircd starting too late?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 06 July 2009 17:28:17 Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ben Lancaster<mail at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Here you go:
> 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/365421#365421
> 
> I can't imagine why Ubuntu starts lirc after gdm...I'd think they'd
> have changed that by now.

Wow. Just, wow. Probably also explains the guy who wasn't getting any
vfd data from mythtv to his display unless he restarted mythlcdserver.
LCDd is probably getting started after mythfrontend too or something
along those lines.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com