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

[Jon Kunze]

I have the exact same problem on a fresh Fedora Core 4 system, lirc runs
fine after I install it the first time, or if I reinstall it. But when I
reboot, it is still running until something tries to access it (ie. MythTV).
I'll try the symlink tonight.

On 9/28/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 28/09/05, Scott Minneman <sminneman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It is also possible to use udev itself (it creates the /dev entries)
> to create a symlink between /dev/lirc0 and /dev/lirc. If you're
> interested in udev, the following is a useful read:
>
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
>
> Nick
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