[mythtv-users] irsend crashing lircd

[Jeremy Gillick]

I've figured it out, the machine was creating /dev/lircd0 instead of
/dev/lircd/0.   I just needed to update the /etc/init.d/lirc file to reflect
this.

Thanks.

On 8/28/07, George Mari <george_mythusers at mari1938.org> wrote:
>
> Jeremy Gillick wrote:
> > Here's the log information from /var/log/lircd:
> >
> > Aug 28 19:33:22 mythtv lircd: lircd(serial) ready
> > Aug 28 19:33:29 mythtv lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> > Aug 28 19:33:29 mythtv lircd: could not get file information for
> /dev/lirc/0
> > Aug 28 19:33:29 mythtv lircd: default_init(): No such file or directory
> > Aug 28 19:33:29 mythtv lircd: caught signal
> >
> > After upgrading linux I did recompile lirc.
> >
> > On 8/28/07, Jeremy Gillick <jeremymailing at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I recently upgraded to the latest Ubuntu and linux versions, and of
> course
> >> this means that everything breaks. :o)
> >>
> >> My current problem is with irsend, it seems to crash lircd:
> >>
> >> $ /etc/init.d/lirc start
> >> Starting lirc daemon
> >> $ irsend -d /dev/lircd SEND_ONCE dish2 5
> >>
> >> # All good so far, until I try to use it again.
> >>
> >> $ irsend -d /dev/lircd SEND_ONCE dish2 5
> >> irsend: could not connect to socket
> >> irsend: Connection refused
> >>
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?  I'm using a homebrew serial IR module, that shares the
> same
> >> serial port as the IR receiver.  This configuration was working great,
> until
> >> I upgraded.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jeremy
> >>
>
>
> Does /dev/lirc/0 exist?  If so, who owns it and what are its permission?
>
> I ran into a similar problem recently on my FC6 desktop.  It turned out
> I had some lirc RPMS for FC4 that seemed to be interfering.  Once I
> removed them I was good.
>
> I see you re-compiled lirc, so you don't have package issues, but my
> offending RPM was for the /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules file, so you may
> want to look into that.  (I think Ubuntu uses udev, anyway)  Do you get
> any udev errors when your machine boots?
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