[mythtv-users] Lirc slow to start on Myth 0.22

[Darren Hart]

I upgraded from MythTV 0.21 to 0.22 today (and Ubuntu Jaunty to Karmic)
using MythBuntu. Everything works.... eventually. I haven't been able to
identify exactly what is going on, but when the frontend first starts up, it
is responsive to the keyboard, but it ignores the remote. After a while,
possibly after some mouse motion and clicks, the remote starts working.

MythTV is connecting to the lircd at startup and irw works consistently
without any sort of delay. I thought it might be some kind of window focus
issue, but I'm using native lirc support which supposedly isn't impacted by
window focus.

Output of mythfrontend:

2010-02-25 22:44:36.564 mythfrontend version: branches/release-0-22-fixes
[22594] www.mythtv.org
...
2010-02-25 22:44:37.370 LIRC: Successfully initialized '/dev/lircd' using
'/home/dvhart/.mythtv/lircrc' config

No more LIRC messages in the log.


/var/log/syslog shows mythtv connecting to lirc immediately as well:

Feb 25 22:44:37 katara lircd-0.8.6[5187]: accepted new client on
/var/run/lirc/lircd

Can anyone think of why 0.22 might not respond to remote key presses
immediately?

# MythTV Connects
Feb 26 00:07:13 katara lircd-0.8.6[5187]: accepted new client on
/var/run/lirc/lircd
Feb 26 00:07:13 katara lircd-0.8.6[5187]: Initializing UDP: 5000
Feb 26 00:07:13 katara lircd-0.8.6[5187]: Listening on port 5000/udp
Feb 26 00:09:01 katara CRON[10822]: (root) CMD (  [ -x
/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/
-type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm)

# I connect with irw to ensure it's working, it is
Feb 26 00:11:24 katara lircd-0.8.6[5187]: accepted new client on
/var/run/lirc/lircd
# I kill irw
Feb 26 00:11:37 katara lircd-0.8.6[5187]: removed client

I wait another couple minutes. Then I use the keyboard and mouse, move
through the menu a bit, click, right click, move the mouse. Then the remote
starts working at 00:13:00 - a full 5 minutes after I started mythv.
-- 
Darren Hart
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