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

[Jeff Clemens]

So, with a recent software upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), a few problems
seem to have been introduced into my system. I'm not entirely sure what the
cause is, and was wondering if someone else is having similar trouble.
 First, the specs on my system:
 Its a Pentium3 Fedora Core 3 (Kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) system with a
PVR350 - I use the tv-out on the tv tuner card.
 When the system boots up, if you do a /sbin/service --status-all, it shows
lircd running fine. As soon as you start a program that gets input from lirc
(MythTV, irw, etc.) the remote does not seem to work (irw just returns to
the command line with no output).
 At this point, if you do a service --status-all you get the following:
 lircd dead but subsys locked
 I can restart lircd (/sbin/service lircd restart) and it restarts
successfully. status-all shows that it's running, but again, nothing happens
when you run irw.
 I've set my system up per jarod's Fedora 3 guide, and everything worked
fine until the upgrade to the current kernel.
 I also noticed that for some reason, there is no /dev/lirc There is a
/dev/lirc0 and a /dev/lircd. In /var/log/messages I see:
 Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd: lircd shutdown failed
Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: lircd(any) ready
Sep 28 14:41:41 localhost lircd: lircd startup succeeded
Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: accepted new client on
/dev/lircd
Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: could not get file information
for /dev/lirc
Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: default_init(): No such file or
directory
Sep 28 14:42:00 localhost lircd-0.7.2[2034]: caught signal
Sep 28 14:42:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[2038]: session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Sep 28 14:42:02 localhost crond(pam_unix)[2038]: session closed for user
root
  Any ideas?
 Jeff
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