[mythtv-users] Joy and pain (Daryl McDonald)

Sat Feb 15 15:22:27 UTC 2014

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Saturday, February 15, 2014, 2:30:14 AM, you wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hoi Daryl,
>>>
>>> Saturday, February 15, 2014, 1:32:42 AM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a question for somebody who knows about the boot structure in
>>>>> mythbuntu. Daryls search for files containing '/dev/lirc' among others
>>>>> also gave these bootscripts.
>>>>>>/etc/rc3.d/S19lirc:OLD_SOCKET="/dev/lircd"
>>>>>>/etc/rc6.d/K19lirc:OLD_SOCKET="/dev/lircd"
>>>>>>/etc/init.d/lirc:OLD_SOCKET="/dev/lircd"
>>>>>>/etc/rc2.d/S19lirc:OLD_SOCKET="/dev/lircd"
>>>>>>/etc/rc1.d/K19lirc:OLD_SOCKET="/dev/lircd"
>>>>>>/etc/rc0.d/K19lirc:OLD_SOCKET="/dev/lircd"
>>>>>>/etc/rc4.d/S19lirc:OLD_SOCKET="/dev/lircd"
>>>>> They have the variable OLD_SOCKET hard-coded. Does Daryl have to run
>>>>> some update bootscripts command to put the changes in
>>>>> /etc/lirc/hardware.conf into effect?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tot mails,
>>>>>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>>>
>>>>> De lerende Mens
>>>>> --
>>>>>
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>>>> The reboot didn't go so well, I got a black screen with the message:
>>>
>>>> Gave up waiting for root device
>>>> boot Args (cat/proc/cmdline)
>>>> check root (did systemwait for right device?)
>>>> missing modules (cat/proc/modules; ls /dev)
>>>> Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/0b4bdaf-d0f0-4f4d-b003-8049f075c12a does not exist.
>>>> dropping to a shell
>>>> busy box V1.18.5 (ubuntu 1:1.18.5-1ubuntu 4.1
>>>> built in shell (ash) enter 'help' for a list of built in commands
>>>
>>>> I had to remove the new tuner to get the box to re-start. Gotta go for
>>>> now my daughter's furnace needs some TLC, I'll be looking into this in
>>>> the morning.   Daryl
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>>>
>>>
>>> This seems totally unrelated. It looks like problems with accessing
>>> your harddrive. It is possible that while inserting the card the sata
>>> cable to your harddisk got a little bit loose.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tot mails,
>>>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>
>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>
>>> De lerende Mens
>>> --
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>
>> To get back I powered down, pulled the new tuner, rebooted and removed
>> the path from TRANSMITTER_SOCKET="", shut down and restarted with no
>> problem, so I would say it is related to some extent.   Daryl
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>
> As I read the output, this happend just after kernel loading, when it
> wants to mount the root device. So way before lirc comes into play.
> This normally happens if it can't load the right kernel module for
> disk access. But since it didn't happen before or after, the most
> probable cause is physical. A bad cable connection to the disk.
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
> --
>
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Hoi HIka, I mustered all my courage and re-added the path to the
socket and rebooted, no re-occurrence of last nights problem, but no
joy either:

 daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/check_stb
irsend: could not connect to socket
irsend: No such file or directory
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ lsmod | grep lirc
lirc_serial            19279  0
ir_lirc_codec          12860  0
lirc_dev               19205  2 lirc_serial,ir_lirc_codec
rc_core                26423  12
ir_lirc_codec,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_sanyo_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_nec_decoder,rc_pinnacle_pctv_hd,cx23885,cx88xx
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ dmesg | grep lirc
[   25.271902] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 250
[   25.272388] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (cx88xx)
registered at minor = 0
[   25.893670] lirc_serial: module is from the staging directory, the
quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[   26.795142] lirc_serial: auto-detected active high receiver
[   26.795380] lirc_serial lirc_serial.0: lirc_dev: driver lirc_serial
registered at minor = 1
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls /dev/lirc*
/dev/lirc0  /dev/lirc1  /dev/lircd  /dev/lircSerial
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

So where do we go from here?    Daryl