[mythtv-users] liblirc_client not compiled into mythfrontend

Thu Apr 1 02:34:23 UTC 2010

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 03/31/2010 11:30 AM, Brock Haywood wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Brock Haywood wrote
>>
>>
>>
>>> So,i'm getting no response from the remote control when running myth. I
>>> also don't see anything in the frontend log.
>>>
>>> Here is the output of the log when starting up the frontend, pressing
>>> some
>>> buttons on the remote and shutting down the frontend:
>>>
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:40.238 mythfrontend version: tags/release-0-22 [0.22]
>>> www.mythtv.org
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:40.239 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:40.239 Using configuration directory =
>>> /home/myth/.mythtv
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.157 Empty LocalHostName.
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.158 Using localhost value of vectorsigma
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.168 New DB connection, total: 1
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.173 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>>> 127.0.0.1
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.175 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.203 ScreenSaverX11Private: XScreenSaver support
>>> enabled
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.203 ScreenSaverX11Private: Gnome screen saver support
>>> enabled
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.205 DPMS is disabled.
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.207 Primary screen: 0.
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.209 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>>> 127.0.0.1
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.211 Using screen 0, 1920x1080 at 0,0
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.244 MythUI Image Cache size set to 20971520 bytes
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.245 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.258 Primary screen: 0.
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.259 Using screen 0, 1920x1080 at 0,0
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.261 Using theme base resolution of 1280x720
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.667 Using the Qt painter
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.935 Loaded base theme from
>>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/base.xml
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:41.947 Loaded base theme from
>>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/base.xml
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:42.001 Loaded base theme from
>>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:42.002 Unable to load window 'backgroundwindow' from
>>> base
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:42.016 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1244
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:42.019 New DB connection, total: 2
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:42.028 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>>> 127.0.0.1
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:42.544 Desktop video mode: 1920x1080 60.0024 Hz
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:42.918 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:42.977 Registering WebBrowser as a media playback
>>> plugin.
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.070 MMUnix::AddDevice() Error: failed to stat
>>> /dev/bdi,
>>>
>>>                         eno: No such file or directory (2)
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.075 MMUnix::AddDevice() Error: failed to stat
>>> /dev/power,
>>>                         eno: No such file or directory (2)
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.080 MMUnix::AddDevice() Error: failed to stat
>>> /dev/trace,
>>>                         eno: No such file or directory (2)
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.086 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.121 Current MythMusic Schema Version
>>> (MusicDBSchemaVer): 1017
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.215 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40,
>>>
>>> mp3,mp2,ogg,oga,flac,wma,wav,ac3,oma,omg,atp,ra,dts,aac,m4a,aa3,tta,mka,aiff,swa,wv)
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.250 Current MythVideo Schema Version
>>> (mythvideo.DBSchemaVer): 1028
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.374 NetworkControl: Listening for remote connections
>>> on
>>> port 6546
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.377 Loading window theme from
>>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/menu-ui.xml
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.498 Loading menu theme from
>>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//mainmenu.xml
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:43.502 Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'Mythbuntu'
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:45.681 MythContext: Connecting to backend server:
>>> 192.168.1.199:6543 (try 1 of 1)
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:45.683 Using protocol version 50
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:52.481 NetworkControl: Socket disconnected
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:52.488 AudioPulseUtil: Resume Success
>>> 2010-03-30 16:39:52.488 Deleting UPnP client...
>>> Error in my_thread_global_end(): 1 threads didn't exi
>>>
>> Does the fact there are no errors in this log suggest that perhaps things
>>
>> like the repeat in the .lircrc are wrong?
>>
>>
>
> The fact that there are no LIRC errors in the log /and/ the fact that there
> is no:
>
> 2010-03-31 17:43:46.177 LIRC: Successfully initialized '/dev/lirc' using
> '/home/mythtv/.lircrc' config
>
> in the log suggests that either you're running at a reduced log level (i.e.
> -v important, and not the default, which is -v important,general ) or you
> don't have LIRC support in the frontend you're running.  There is one exit
> in LIRC initialization that doesn't have any explicit MythTV log output, but
> it looks like it should output a "lirc" message to stderr (like, "mythtv:
> could not open socket" or "mythtv: could not connect to socket".
>
> If it's not just a missing message due to bad verbose options, it's
> possible that whoever compiled the binaries did not compile in LIRC support.
>  I realize that your --version output says, "using_lirc," but you should be
> seeing some LIRC messages (either success or failure) with 0.22+ if you
> actually have LIRC support.  It's quite possible you configured with
> --enable-lirc and were lacking libraries so it was disabled--though I don't
> know why it would say using_lirc in that case.
>
> Mike
>
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It definitely seems like the problem is that lirc is not properly compiled
into myth.  I compiled this myself so i will go through that process more
closely but i definitely have not seen any errors that would suggest it
wasn't properly compiled in.

-- 
- brock
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