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

[R. G. Newbury]

Wild guess
Check that there is no a stale lock hanging around in /var/lock/subsys?

*Some* init.d startup scripts have a line to clear this. Mythbackend 
does but most do not, including lircd in my FC$ setup.

I'm thinking of adding this to all of these scripts.

  [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog

Geoff



Lucien D. wrote:
> 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?