[mythtv-users] lircd not starting on boot

[Shane Hollaway]

Managed to get lirc running on boot up.  Turns out I missed a step in
the how to doco.  There is an update to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit that
fixes the problem and ensures that everything loads in the right order
to keep lirc happy.

Thanks for the help.

Shane.

On 24/03/06, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> Al McIntosh wrote:
> > Shane Hollaway wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I have a problem where lircd is not automattically starting when I
> >>boot my FC4 MythTV box.  However it starts happily if I manually start
> >>it and my ir blaster springs into life.  After booting the status of
> >>lircd is:
> >>
> >>[root at htpc ~]# service lircd status
> >>lircd dead but subsys locked
> >>
> >>I've had a look through the /var/log/messages file and found the
> >>following lircd messages get generated on bootup:
> >>
> >>lircd-0.8.0[2809]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
> >>lircd-0.8.0[2809]: default_init(): No such file or directory
> >>lircd-0.8.0[2809]: caught signal
> >>
> >>So based on this I thought the problem was that /dev/lirc did not
> >>exist.  I checked straight after booting and it seems to be there:
> >>
> >>[root at htpc dev]# ls -l lirc*
> >>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root     5 Mar 22 22:30 lirc -> lirc0
> >>crw-rw----  1 mythtv root 61, 0 Mar 22 22:30 lirc0
> >>srw-rw-rw-  1 root   root     0 Mar 22 22:30 lircd
> >>
> >>I'm starting to think that maybe lirc is trying to start before
> >>/dev/lirc is initialised?  (Got no idea how any of that works)
> >>
> >>I had this working on the weekend and the only thing that I've changed
> >>is that I've downgraded the nvidia drivers to version 7676 to try to
> >>smooth out the video playback.  Maybe this has effected the order that
> >>things are loaded at boot time?
> >>
> >>Anyway, I'm at a loss.  If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this it
> >>would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > It looks as though the lirc kernel modules are not loaded when your
> > lircd init script runs. You need to
> > modprobe lirc_i2c before lircd starts.
> >
> You might also try changing the permissions/owners on the symbolic link
> lirc to match the socket lirc0.
>
> Geoff
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