[mythtv] remote broke/lirc_init error message

Michael Wisniewski wiz561 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 14:01:05 UTC 2007


Thanks for the response.  I don't really know which one I'm using.
lol...  I am using the one that came with the kernel.  I didn't
download the lirc source and compile it into the kernel on my
own....if that is what you mean.  :-)

It's strange because this just happened after I upgraded to the latest
svn.  I was going through the different revisions, and one rev worked
while the next didn't.  I noticed that there was some work with the
front-end and using the remote to put in the security code.  I
wondered if this had something to do with it not working anymore.

If the myth logs gave a little better log onto what it couldn't find,
I could narrow it down.  I set the mythfrontend logs to verbose all
and that didn't seem to output what it couldn't find.

Anyways, thanks again for the response!!!

On Dec 6, 2007 10:03 PM, David Backeberg <dbackeberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've had similar issues myself regarding lirc, although it hasn't
> happened to me for at least six months.
>
> Are you using the kernel based event device, or are you using a
> traditional lirc driver specifically configured for a kernel?
>
> Back when I was still using the traditional lirc driver, I noticed
> that the first time I tried to attach to lirc and test that the remote
> was working _outside_of_myth_ the lircd listener would immediately
> crash. The second time I would try, it would stay running.
>
> I honest-to-god never figured it out. When I switched to the
> event-driven kernel stuff, it never happened again (so far). Try out:
>
> http://www-math.mit.edu/~dave/mythtv/#remote
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2007 7:47 PM, Michael Wisniewski <wiz561 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > A rather strange problem.  I upgraded tonight to the latest svn
> > version.  I've had this problem before, but now the remote is somehat
> > working.  When I start mythfrontend, the remote doesn't work and this
> > is in the mythtv frontend.log file.
> >
> > ---
> > 2007-12-06 18:42:05.321 Using the Qt painter
> > mythtv: could not connect to socket
> > mythtv: No such file or directory
> > 2007-12-06 18:42:05.322 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> > 2007-12-06 18:42:05.322 Joystick disabled.
> > ----
> >
> > However, if I exit the frontend and go back into it, it works fine.
> > All I do is exit and go back into the frontend and it works.  Here's
> > the snip of the log file of the working one....
> >
> >
> > ----
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:23.927 Current Schema Version: 1201
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:23.928 mythfrontend version: 0.21.20071202-1 www.mythtv.org
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:23.928 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.182 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.183 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.185 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T)
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.198 Using the Qt painter
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.199 Joystick disabled.
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.210 lirc init success using configuration file:
> > /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.752 Loading from:
> > /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T/base.xml
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.758 Loading from:
> > /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.807 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.877 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
> > 2007-12-06 18:44:24.996 MythMusic adding CD-Writer: 0,0,0 -- ST3500630AS
> > -----
> >
> > Does anybody happen to have any ideas?  I don't think it's a
> > permission problem on /dev/lirc because my permissions aren't changing
> > the second time around.  Just think it's odd....
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