[mythtv-users] Lircd starting too late?

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 21:28:17 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ben Lancaster<mail at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been experiencing a few problems with LIRC starting too late from cold
> boots (or after a hard reset), in that Xorg and Mythfrontend start up before
> the lircd process so mythfrontend is unable to connect to the lircd device.
> Restarting Mythfrontend fixes it, but it'd be nice to figure out a permenant
> fix. The other symptom is that mythlcdserver is unable to make use of the
> VFD in my case unless I kill and restart mythlcdserver.
>
> I'm running Mythbuntu 9.10 with Avenard's packages (didn't work with the
> Mythbuntu debs either), and replaced XFCE with Ratpoison. The remove uses
> the lirc_mceusb2, and the VFD uses the lirc_imon kmod.
>
> Here's what Mythfrontend says:
>
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> 2009-07-06 20:03:05.923 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
>
> I can't see anything untoward in dmesg or messages, and chkconfig shows that
> lirc should trigger when entering runlevel 2 through to 5:
>
> # chkconfig --list | grep lirc
> lirc                      0:off  1:off  2:on   3:on   4:on   5:on   6:off
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers
>
> Ben

Here you go:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/365421#365421

I can't imagine why Ubuntu starts lirc after gdm...I'd think they'd
have changed that by now.

Tom


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