[mythtv-users] lirc acting very bizarrely

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 04:18:37 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Andrew Stadt <acstadt at stadt.ca> wrote:
> On 28/11/2011 10:33 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Gabe Rubin<gaberubin at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Gabe Rubin<gaberubin at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> I have fixed just about all the issues from my fedora 14 to 16
>>>> upgrade.  However, a new issue just spontaneously came up.  My remote
>>>> was working fine and now, all of a sudden, it is not.  Half the keys
>>>> don't work or seem to be mapped to functions that are not defined in
>>>> my lircrc file.
>>>>
>>>> For example, the OK does nothing.  When I hit the Play key, a big icon
>>>> pops up that is a circle with a slash through it (international no
>>>> sign).  When I hit the keys bound to page up and page down, a volume
>>>> indicator pops up and adjusts the volume.  I have these keys set for
>>>> something different in my lircrc file.
>>>>
>>>> I know this is not a myth issue because when I quit myth, I still get
>>>> these icons with these buttons.  I can't for the life of me figure out
>>>> what application is doing this as I have not really installed anything
>>>> since it was working.  Any ideas?
>>>>
>>> I somehow screwed things up by adding the following to  /etc/default/grub :
>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash rdblacklist=nouveau
>>> gfxpayload=1024x768x24 vmalloc=256M"
>>> and then updating grub by doing  grub2-mkconfig>  /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>>>   per the recommendation of someone to fix other issues.  Not sure how
>>> any of that would have impacted lirc.
>>>
>> Sorry, replying to myself again.  When I rebooted another time, the
>> problem appears again.  These are the processes that are currently
>> running:
>> [mythtv at localhost ~]$ ps -A
>>    PID TTY          TIME CMD
>>      1 ?        00:00:01 systemd
>>      2 ?        00:00:00 kthreadd
>>      3 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
>>      4 ?        00:00:00 kworker/0:0
>>      5 ?        00:00:00 kworker/u:0
>>      6 ?        00:00:00 migration/0
>>      7 ?        00:00:00 watchdog/0
>>      8 ?        00:00:00 cpuset
>>      9 ?        00:00:00 khelper
>>     10 ?        00:00:00 kdevtmpfs
>>     11 ?        00:00:00 netns
>>     12 ?        00:00:00 sync_supers
>>     13 ?        00:00:00 bdi-default
>>     14 ?        00:00:00 kintegrityd
>>     15 ?        00:00:00 kblockd
>>     16 ?        00:00:00 ata_sff
>>     17 ?        00:00:00 khubd
>>     18 ?        00:00:00 md
>>     19 ?        00:00:00 kworker/0:1
>>     21 ?        00:00:00 kswapd0
>>     22 ?        00:00:00 ksmd
>>     23 ?        00:00:00 khugepaged
>>     24 ?        00:00:00 fsnotify_mark
>>     25 ?        00:00:00 crypto
>>     31 ?        00:00:00 kthrotld
>>     32 ?        00:00:00 kworker/u:1
>>     33 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
>>     34 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
>>     35 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
>>     36 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
>>     37 ?        00:00:00 kworker/u:2
>>     38 ?        00:00:00 kworker/u:3
>>     39 ?        00:00:00 kworker/u:4
>>     40 ?        00:00:00 kpsmoused
>>     41 ?        00:00:00 kworker/0:2
>>     42 ?        00:00:00 kworker/u:5
>>    315 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_4
>>    327 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_5
>>    366 ?        00:00:00 firewire
>>    416 ?        00:00:00 kdmflush
>>    418 ?        00:00:00 kdmflush
>>    434 ?        00:00:00 kdmflush
>>    473 ?        00:00:00 jbd2/dm-0-8
>>    474 ?        00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
>>    519 ?        00:00:00 kauditd
>>    521 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>>    523 ?        00:00:00 systemd-stdout-
>>    559 ?        00:00:00 rpciod
>>    569 ?        00:00:01 kworker/0:3
>>    624 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>>    625 ?        00:00:00 udevd
>>    744 ?        00:00:00 ivtv0
>>    748 ?        00:00:00 flush-253:0
>>    753 ?        00:00:00 hd-audio0
>>    781 ?        00:00:00 hd-audio1
>>    800 ?        00:00:00 msp34xx
>>    882 ?        00:00:00 kdmflush
>>    897 ?        00:00:00 kdmflush
>>    918 ?        00:00:00 jbd2/sda1-8
>>    919 ?        00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
>>    933 ?        00:00:00 jbd2/dm-4-8
>>    934 ?        00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
>>    978 ?        00:00:00 atd
>>    980 ?        00:00:00 NetworkManager
>>    982 ?        00:00:00 abrtd
>>    983 ?        00:00:00 ntpd
>>    985 ?        00:00:00 systemd-logind
>>    988 ?        00:00:00 rsyslogd
>>    998 ?        00:00:00 gpm
>>   1001 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
>>   1042 ?        00:00:00 polkitd
>>   1071 ?        00:00:00 modem-manager
>>   1082 ?        00:00:00 bluetoothd
>>   1192 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>>   1215 ?        00:00:00 rpcbind
>>   1230 ?        00:00:00 rpc.idmapd
>>   1231 ?        00:00:00 flush-8:0
>>   1232 ?        00:00:00 flush-253:4
>>   1239 ?        00:00:00 dhclient
>>   1243 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd
>>   1247 ?        00:00:00 lircd
>>   1372 ?        00:00:00 sendmail
>>   1409 ?        00:00:03 mysqld
>>   1450 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1479 ?        00:00:00 sendmail
>>   1508 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1509 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1510 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1511 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1512 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1513 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1514 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1515 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1516 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>>   1517 ?        00:00:00 mythbackend
>>   1525 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
>>   1547 ?        00:00:00 gdm-simple-slav
>>   1552 tty1     00:00:00 Xorg
>>   1565 tty4     00:00:00 agetty
>>   1566 tty5     00:00:00 agetty
>>   1567 tty3     00:00:00 agetty
>>   1568 tty2     00:00:00 agetty
>>   1569 tty6     00:00:00 agetty
>>   1581 ?        00:00:00 gdm-session-wor
>>   1582 ?        00:00:00 console-kit-dae
>>   1583 ?        00:00:00 accounts-daemon
>>   1650 ?        00:00:00 gnome-session
>>   1661 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch
>>   1662 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
>>   1723 ?        00:00:00 imsettings-daem
>>   1727 ?        00:00:00 gvfsd
>>   1739 ?        00:00:00 gvfs-fuse-daemo
>>   1833 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2
>>   1838 ?        00:00:00 gnome-settings-
>>   1839 ?        00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
>>   1850 ?        00:00:00 upowerd
>>   1889 ?        00:00:00 cupsd
>>   1891 ?        00:00:00 gsd-printer
>>   1893 ?        00:00:00 packagekitd
>>   1895 ?        00:00:00 gvfs-gdu-volume
>>   1901 ?        00:00:00 udisks-daemon
>>   1902 ?        00:00:00 udisks-daemon
>>   1909 ?        00:00:00 gvfs-afc-volume
>>   1912 ?        00:00:00 gvfs-gphoto2-vo
>>   1915 ?        00:00:00 colord
>>   1918 ?        00:00:00 pulseaudio
>>   1919 ?        00:00:00 rtkit-daemon
>>   1927 ?        00:00:00 metacity
>>   1929 ?        00:00:00 dconf-service
>>   1933 ?        00:00:00 gnome-panel
>>   1937 ?        00:00:00 gnome-fallback-
>>   1938 ?        00:00:00 tracker-store
>>   1939 ?        00:00:00 gdu-notificatio
>>   1940 ?        00:00:00 gnome-sound-app
>>   1944 ?        00:00:00 nm-applet
>>   1946 ?        00:00:00 evolution-alarm
>>   1948 ?        00:00:00 tracker-miner-f
>>   1951 ?        00:00:00 notification-da
>>   1954 ?        00:00:00 bluetooth-apple
>>   1958 ?        00:00:00 abrt-applet
>>   1960 ?        00:00:00 tracker-miner-f
>>   1989 ?        00:00:00 irexec
>>   2023 ?        00:00:03 mythfrontend
>>   2026 ?        00:00:00 polkit-gnome-au
>>   2056 ?        00:00:00 wnck-applet
>>   2058 ?        00:00:00 clock-applet
>>   2060 ?        00:00:00 notification-ar
>>   2098 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend<defunct>
>>   2099 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend<defunct>
>>   2100 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend<defunct>
>>   2101 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend<defunct>
>>   2111 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>>   2113 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>>   2114 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
>>   2147 pts/0    00:00:00 ps
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> cat /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
>
> I'm guessing that you're expecting lircd to handle everything, but
> chances are the new ir input layer is actually handling it.  If lircd is
> installed and running, you can
> echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
> which will allow lircd to do its interpretation, but will keep the input
> layer from doing  its thing.
>
> Just a guess, I gave up on FC??
>
> Andrew.
>

I don't know, I will give that a shot.  I took screenshots of the
icons that pop up, maybe someone knows what program this is:
mustbethemoney.mine.nu:8080/shot.png
mustbethemoney.mine.nu:8080/shot2.png

Thanks


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