Ok, here's what happens when i try to reinstall lirc<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><span>[root@mythtv mythtv]# yum install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER</span><br>
<span>Setting up Install Process</span><br>
<span>Setting up repositories</span><br>
<span>atrpms
100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00</span><br>
<span>freshrpms
100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00</span><br>
<span>extras
100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00</span><br>
<span>updates-released
100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00</span><br>
<span>base
100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00</span><br>
<span>Reading repository metadata in from local files</span><br>
<span>primary.xml.gz
100% |=========================| 346 kB 00:00</span><br>
<span>updates-re: ################################################## 992/992</span><br>
<span>Added 50 new packages, deleted 25 old in 1.55 seconds</span><br>
<span>Parsing package install arguments</span><br>
<span>No Match for argument: ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4</span><br>
<span>Nothing to do</span><br>
<span>[root@mythtv mythtv]#</span> <br>
</blockquote>
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Any idea why this is happening? It worked fine a few weeks ago when I rebooted last.<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Allan Mcintosh</b> <<a href="mailto:amcintosh@atreus-systems.com">amcintosh@atreus-systems.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Verify the permissions on the lirc devices are 666<br><br>I am pretty sure once I had to pass --permission=666<br>--device=/dev/lirc/lirc0 because the devices were created with 600<br>permissions and lircd was looking for /dev/lirc which was actually a
<br>directory....<br><br><br>Ant Daniel wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> On 10/17/05, *Jon Kunze* <<a href="mailto:jon99ut@gmail.com">jon99ut@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jon99ut@gmail.com">jon99ut@gmail.com
</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> I tried the symlink, and it seemed to work... until i rebooted.<br>><br>> So now I've got bigger problems. Like before, I uninstalled lirc<br>> via yum and then tried to reinstall yum, which fixed the problem
<br>> before, but only until I rebooted.<br>><br>> I did the following<br>><br>> # yum remove lirc-kmdl-$KVER<br>> # yum remove lirc<br>><br>> then I did<br>><br>> # yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER
<br>> This line fails as it says there is no match for my kernel<br>> # yum install lirc<br>> This one goes fine<br>><br>> Then I do the<br>><br>> # /sbin/depmod -a<br>
> # /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c<br>> No moduble lirc_i2c found<br>> # /sbin/chkconfig lircd on<br>> # /sbin/service lircd start [OK]<br>><br>> Then when I run either irw or mythfrontend, I get "lircd dead, but
<br>> subsys locked" again.<br>><br>><br>> Any ideas on this? Unfortunately I'm at work right now, so I can't<br>> put the exact error messages in this email, but I will be able to<br>> later tonight if anyone has any ideas. Thanks.
<br>><br>><br>><br>> On 9/30/05, *Nick* <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com
</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> On 30/09/05, Jon Kunze <<a href="mailto:jon99ut@gmail.com">jon99ut@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jon99ut@gmail.com">jon99ut@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:
<br>>><br>>><br>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>>> From: Jon Kunze < <a href="mailto:jon99ut@gmail.com">jon99ut@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jon99ut@gmail.com">jon99ut@gmail.com
</a>>><br>>> Date: Sep 29, 2005 7:08 PM<br>>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but<br>> crashes as soon as<br>>> something tries to use it<br>>> To: Nate Thompson <
<a href="mailto:nightstrm@gmail.com">nightstrm@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:nightstrm@gmail.com">nightstrm@gmail.com</a>>><br>>><br>>> Ok, when I try the symlink, it says /dev/lirc already exists.
<br>> Any ideas?<br>>> Removing the /dev/lirc and the doing the symlink goes<br>> through, but still<br>>> when I start the frontend lirc locks.<br>><br>> Does the LIRC log give any useful info when it fails now?
<br>><br>> You can also start lircd using the parameter --device=/dev/lirc0 -<br>> does this work at all?<br>><br>> Nick<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________
<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br>><br>> After a recent update I was also having this problem (using FC3) when<br>> the symlink is set there was no problems, but the link was lost on reboot.
<br>><br>> I solved it on my setup by editing /etc/sysconfig/lircd:<br>> # Options to lircd<br>> LIRCD_OPTIONS="-d /dev/lirc0"<br>><br>> This then gets lircd to look at the already existing /dev/lirc0 rather
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