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

[Nate Thompson]

On 9/29/05, Jon Kunze <jon99ut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

 I believe that something has changed with the lirc package, or the program
itself. I had this problem when I did a dist-upgrade on my box, but creating
the symlink given below made everything run smoothly again.
 Nate


  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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