I've figured it out, the machine was creating /dev/lircd0 instead of /dev/lircd/0. I just needed to update the /etc/init.d/lirc file to reflect this.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
George Mari</b> <<a href="mailto:george_mythusers@mari1938.org">george_mythusers@mari1938.org</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;">
Jeremy Gillick wrote:<br>> Here's the log information from /var/log/lircd:<br>><br>> Aug 28 19:33:22 mythtv lircd: lircd(serial) ready<br>> Aug 28 19:33:29 mythtv lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd<br>
> Aug 28 19:33:29 mythtv lircd: could not get file information for /dev/lirc/0<br>> Aug 28 19:33:29 mythtv lircd: default_init(): No such file or directory<br>> Aug 28 19:33:29 mythtv lircd: caught signal<br>>
<br>> After upgrading linux I did recompile lirc.<br>><br>> On 8/28/07, Jeremy Gillick <<a href="mailto:jeremymailing@gmail.com">jeremymailing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> I recently upgraded to the latest Ubuntu and linux versions, and of course
<br>>> this means that everything breaks. :o)<br>>><br>>> My current problem is with irsend, it seems to crash lircd:<br>>><br>>> $ /etc/init.d/lirc start<br>>> Starting lirc daemon<br>
>> $ irsend -d /dev/lircd SEND_ONCE dish2 5<br>>><br>>> # All good so far, until I try to use it again.<br>>><br>>> $ irsend -d /dev/lircd SEND_ONCE dish2 5<br>>> irsend: could not connect to socket
<br>>> irsend: Connection refused<br>>><br>>><br>>> Any thoughts? I'm using a homebrew serial IR module, that shares the same<br>>> serial port as the IR receiver. This configuration was working great, until
<br>>> I upgraded.<br>>><br>>> Thanks,<br>>> Jeremy<br>>><br><br><br>Does /dev/lirc/0 exist? If so, who owns it and what are its permission?<br><br>I ran into a similar problem recently on my FC6 desktop. It turned out
<br>I had some lirc RPMS for FC4 that seemed to be interfering. Once I<br>removed them I was good.<br><br>I see you re-compiled lirc, so you don't have package issues, but my<br>offending RPM was for the /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules file, so you may
<br>want to look into that. (I think Ubuntu uses udev, anyway) Do you get<br>any udev errors when your machine boots?<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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