[mythtv-users] lirc working fine but then stops after reboot and hangs

[Lincoln]

On 30/10/2013 7:47 a.m., Paul Clark wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> This is really driving me mad.
>
> I'm doing a fresh install of 12.04LTS with a 'sudo apt-get upgrade' 
> everything. At that point I install lirc and get it working fine. I 
> have the right hardware.conf and I can see all the key presses working 
> fine using irw. I'm using a Hauppauge PVR-150 card and the IR 
> receiver/remote that comes with that. Everything is fine. All is good 
> with the world. I can issue sudo service lirc restart and it works as 
> expected.
>
> Then randomly after a reboot everything stops. irw simply says 
> connect: No such file or directory. If I try to do anything with lirc, 
> either 'sudo service lirc stop' or 'sudo apt-get purge lirc' then the 
> session hangs. Nothing. Even reboots start to hang. All I get is a 
> message on the screen saying 'acpid: exiting Checking for running 
> unattended-upgrades:'.
>
> If I check the dmesg log I see a bunch of messages along the lines of:
>
> Oct 28 22:13:32 borg kernel: [  240.756452] INFO: task lirc:1316 
> blocked for more than 120 seconds.
> Oct 28 22:13:32 borg kernel: [  240.756499] "echo 0 > 
> /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> Oct 28 22:13:32 borg kernel: [  240.756547] lirc            D 00000000 
>     0  1316      1 0x00000000
>
> I have tried everything I can think of. I've had remotes working fine 
> on this machine before. For about 4 years this was my MythTV backend. 
> I decided to upgrade a week ago and have been solidly stuck on this 
> issue. I would greatly welcome any help anyone has.
>
> Thanks, Paul
>

What driver are you using for lirc?
Can you post your /etc/lirc/hardware.conf script?
When you've restarted your system, is lirc running - what does 'ps -ef | 
grep lirc' give?
Could you put the output of 'dmesg | grep -v IRQ | grep 'lirc\|rc\|IR' -C3'
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