[mythtv-users] power failure - now lirc stopped working

[Lucien D.]

On 3/27/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Lucien D. wrote:
>
> > This may be better placed on a lirc-centric mailing list, but I'll try
> > here first.
> >
> > everything has been working brillantly up until last night.  During
> > the night the power went off in my room while my comp was running.
> > When I got everything booted back up it appears that lirc has stopped
> > working.
> >
> > I've done all the debugging I can think of, everything seems to be
> > working as it should.  No error messages in the log, the modules are
> > all there, the dev files are all there, the daemon is running.  But
> > when I run irw there is no output.  I checked that batteries (made
> > that mistake before) and they were fine.  I am running out of ideas,
> > so any help would be appreciated.
>
> Perhaps things are all up but came up in the incorrect order ?? If
> lircd started before the devices were created for example, you would
> have problems (I had that problem once).
>

I have done this.


> Have you tried re-starting lircd ? Checked permissions on the devices
> and checked that the processes were started by the correct user?
>

also done this.


> If it worked once it should work again.
>

I agree


> If I were you I would check all of the above after you get back from
> the store that sells UPS devices :-)

haha, if only I had the money..

any1 else have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Lucien

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