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

Scott Minneman sminneman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 21:55:54 UTC 2005


I had the same problem on my FC3 box.  To fix it, I created a symlink:

# ln -s /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc

That creates a link from /dev/lirc to /dev/lirc0, so lircd is able to
see the device.

-Scott


On 9/28/05, Jeff Clemens <teedub303 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, with a recent software upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), a few problems
> seem to have been introduced into my system. I'm not entirely sure what the
> cause is, and was wondering if someone else is having similar trouble.
>  First, the specs on my system:
>  Its a Pentium3 Fedora Core 3 (Kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) system with a
> PVR350 - I use the tv-out on the tv tuner card.
>  When the system boots up, if you do a /sbin/service --status-all, it shows
> lircd running fine. As soon as you start a program that gets input from
> lirc
> (MythTV, irw, etc.) the remote does not seem to work (irw just returns to
> the command line with no output).
>  At this point, if you do a service --status-all you get the following:
>  lircd dead but subsys locked
>  I can restart lircd (/sbin/service lircd restart) and it restarts
> successfully. status-all shows that it's running, but again, nothing
> happens
> when you run irw.
>  I've set my system up per jarod's Fedora 3 guide, and everything worked
> fine until the upgrade to the current kernel.
>  I also noticed that for some reason, there is no /dev/lirc There is a
> /dev/lirc0 and a /dev/lircd. In /var/log/messages I see:
>  Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd: lircd shutdown failed
> Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: lircd(any) ready
> Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd: lircd startup succeeded
> Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: accepted new client on
> /dev/lircd
> Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: could not get file information
> for /dev/lirc
> Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: default_init(): No such file
> or
> directory
> Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: caught signal
> Sep 28 14:42:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[2038]: session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Sep 28 14:42:02 localhost crond(pam_unix)[2038]: session closed for user
> root
>   Any ideas?
>  Jeff
>
>


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Scott Minneman
J.D. Candidate, 2007
The George Washington University Law School


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