[mythtv-users] lircd and automatic startup

[Rob Rosenfeld]

jsee at emich.edu wrote:

>Here is my problem. mythbackend and lircd start just fine during boot 
>up, at least the log (/var/log/boot.log) says they do. However my 
>remote does not work.
>
>If I kill mythbackend and mythfrontend, manually start lircd, then 
>start mythbackend and mythfrontend again then everything works just 
>fine. 
>
>Anybody have this happened to them or have any ideas how to fix this?
>  
>
Have you tried testing with irw as noted in Jarod's guide?  Maybe it's 
permissions on the lirc device depend on who starts it?