[mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

[Jon Kunze]

Ok, here's what happens when i try to reinstall lirc

[root at mythtv mythtv]# yum install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> atrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 346 kB 00:00
> updates-re: ################################################## 992/992
> Added 50 new packages, deleted 25 old in 1.55 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4
> Nothing to do
> [root at mythtv mythtv]#
>

Any idea why this is happening? It worked fine a few weeks ago when I
rebooted last.


On 10/17/05, Allan Mcintosh <amcintosh at atreus-systems.com> wrote:
>
> Verify the permissions on the lirc devices are 666
>
> I am pretty sure once I had to pass --permission=666
> --device=/dev/lirc/lirc0 because the devices were created with 600
> permissions and lircd was looking for /dev/lirc which was actually a
> directory....
>
>
> Ant Daniel wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 10/17/05, *Jon Kunze* <jon99ut at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jon99ut at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I tried the symlink, and it seemed to work... until i rebooted.
> >
> > So now I've got bigger problems. Like before, I uninstalled lirc
> > via yum and then tried to reinstall yum, which fixed the problem
> > before, but only until I rebooted.
> >
> > I did the following
> >
> > # yum remove lirc-kmdl-$KVER
> > # yum remove lirc
> >
> > then I did
> >
> > # yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER
> > This line fails as it says there is no match for my kernel
> > # yum install lirc
> > This one goes fine
> >
> > Then I do the
> >
> > # /sbin/depmod -a
> > # /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
> > No moduble lirc_i2c found
> > # /sbin/chkconfig lircd on
> > # /sbin/service lircd start [OK]
> >
> > Then when I run either irw or mythfrontend, I get "lircd dead, but
> > subsys locked" again.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas on this? Unfortunately I'm at work right now, so I can't
> > put the exact error messages in this email, but I will be able to
> > later tonight if anyone has any ideas. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/30/05, *Nick* <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
> > <mailto:knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 30/09/05, Jon Kunze <jon99ut at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jon99ut at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Jon Kunze < jon99ut at gmail.com <mailto:jon99ut at gmail.com>>
> >> Date: Sep 29, 2005 7:08 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but
> > crashes as soon as
> >> something tries to use it
> >> To: Nate Thompson < nightstrm at gmail.com
> > <mailto:nightstrm at gmail.com>>
> >>
> >> Ok, when I try the symlink, it says /dev/lirc already exists.
> > Any ideas?
> >> Removing the /dev/lirc and the doing the symlink goes
> > through, but still
> >> when I start the frontend lirc locks.
> >
> > Does the LIRC log give any useful info when it fails now?
> >
> > You can also start lircd using the parameter --device=/dev/lirc0 -
> > does this work at all?
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > After a recent update I was also having this problem (using FC3) when
> > the symlink is set there was no problems, but the link was lost on
> reboot.
> >
> > I solved it on my setup by editing /etc/sysconfig/lircd:
> > # Options to lircd
> > LIRCD_OPTIONS="-d /dev/lirc0"
> >
> > This then gets lircd to look at the already existing /dev/lirc0 rather
> > than the missing /dev/lirc
> >
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