[mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

[Allan Mcintosh]

Verify the permissions on the lirc devices are 666

I am pretty sure once I had to pass --permission=666 
--device=/dev/lirc/lirc0 because the devices were created with 600 
permissions and lircd was looking for /dev/lirc which was actually a 
directory....


Ant Daniel wrote:

>
>
> On 10/17/05, *Jon Kunze* <jon99ut at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jon99ut at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I tried the symlink, and it seemed to work... until i rebooted.
>
>     So now I've got bigger problems. Like before, I uninstalled lirc
>     via yum and then tried to reinstall yum, which fixed the problem
>     before, but only until I rebooted.
>
>     I did the following
>
>     # yum remove lirc-kmdl-$KVER
>     # yum remove lirc
>
>     then I did
>
>     # yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER
>           This line fails as it says there is no match for my kernel
>     # yum install lirc
>           This one goes fine
>
>     Then I do the
>
>     # /sbin/depmod -a
>     # /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
>           No moduble lirc_i2c found
>     # /sbin/chkconfig lircd on
>     # /sbin/service lircd start      [OK]
>
>     Then when I run either irw or mythfrontend, I get "lircd dead, but
>     subsys locked" again.
>
>
>     Any ideas on this? Unfortunately I'm at work right now, so I can't
>     put the exact error messages in this email, but I will be able to
>     later tonight if anyone has any ideas. Thanks.
>
>
>
>     On 9/30/05, *Nick* <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
>     <mailto:knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On 30/09/05, Jon Kunze <jon99ut at gmail.com
>         <mailto:jon99ut at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jon Kunze < jon99ut at gmail.com <mailto:jon99ut at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Sep 29, 2005 7:08 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but
>         crashes as soon as
>> something tries to use it
>> To: Nate Thompson < nightstrm at gmail.com
>         <mailto:nightstrm at gmail.com>>
>>
>> Ok, when I try the symlink, it says /dev/lirc already exists.
>         Any ideas?
>> Removing the /dev/lirc and the doing the symlink goes
>         through, but still
>> when I start the frontend lirc locks.
>
>         Does the LIRC log give any useful info when it fails now?
>
>         You can also start lircd using the parameter --device=/dev/lirc0 -
>         does this work at all?
>
>         Nick
>
>
>
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>
> After a recent update I was also having this problem (using FC3) when 
> the symlink is set there was no problems, but the link was lost on reboot.
>
> I solved it on my setup by editing /etc/sysconfig/lircd:
> # Options to lircd
> LIRCD_OPTIONS="-d /dev/lirc0"
>
> This then gets lircd to look at the already existing /dev/lirc0 rather 
> than the missing /dev/lirc
>
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