[mythtv-users] lircd not starting on boot

[Brian Wood]

Thanks, that's not the problem on my Gentoo box, but at least I know  
one more thing that it isn't :-)

Brian Wood
beww at beww.org



On Mar 23, 2006, at 9:33 PM, Shane Hollaway wrote:

> The lirc section of the how to is here:
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#lirc
>
> And the step that I'd missed was:
>
> UPDATE: I think I finally have a completely viable, universal fix to
> get both ivtv and lirc modules (no matter which lirc module you're
> using, as long as its in modprobe.conf) loading very early in the boot
> process. I simply made a few changes to rc.sysinit, which you can add
> to your system via a patch I've generated, which you can simply
> download and apply:
>
> # wget https://svn.wilsonet.com/svn/mythtvology/trunk/rc.sysinit- 
> mm.diff
> # patch /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit < rc.sysinit-mm.diff
>
>
> On 24/03/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> Could you tell me or point me to the info on exactly what that is ?
>> My Myth machine is happy in that regard but I have another box with
>> some problems and it might save me comparing the files line by line.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Brian Wood
>> beww at beww.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Shane Hollaway wrote:
>>
>>> Managed to get lirc running on boot up.  Turns out I missed a  
>>> step in
>>> the how to doco.  There is an update to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit that
>>> fixes the problem and ensures that everything loads in the right  
>>> order
>>> to keep lirc happy.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>
>>> Shane.
>>>
>>> On 24/03/06, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>>>> Al McIntosh wrote:
>>>>> Shane Hollaway wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a problem where lircd is not automattically starting  
>>>>>> when I
>>>>>> boot my FC4 MythTV box.  However it starts happily if I manually
>>>>>> start
>>>>>> it and my ir blaster springs into life.  After booting the
>>>>>> status of
>>>>>> lircd is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [root at htpc ~]# service lircd status
>>>>>> lircd dead but subsys locked
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've had a look through the /var/log/messages file and found the
>>>>>> following lircd messages get generated on bootup:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> lircd-0.8.0[2809]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
>>>>>> lircd-0.8.0[2809]: default_init(): No such file or directory
>>>>>> lircd-0.8.0[2809]: caught signal
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So based on this I thought the problem was that /dev/lirc did not
>>>>>> exist.  I checked straight after booting and it seems to be  
>>>>>> there:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [root at htpc dev]# ls -l lirc*
>>>>>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root     5 Mar 22 22:30 lirc -> lirc0
>>>>>> crw-rw----  1 mythtv root 61, 0 Mar 22 22:30 lirc0
>>>>>> srw-rw-rw-  1 root   root     0 Mar 22 22:30 lircd
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm starting to think that maybe lirc is trying to start before
>>>>>> /dev/lirc is initialised?  (Got no idea how any of that works)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had this working on the weekend and the only thing that I've
>>>>>> changed
>>>>>> is that I've downgraded the nvidia drivers to version 7676 to
>>>>>> try to
>>>>>> smooth out the video playback.  Maybe this has effected the
>>>>>> order that
>>>>>> things are loaded at boot time?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, I'm at a loss.  If anyone has any ideas on how to fix
>>>>>> this it
>>>>>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks as though the lirc kernel modules are not loaded when  
>>>>> your
>>>>> lircd init script runs. You need to
>>>>> modprobe lirc_i2c before lircd starts.
>>>>>
>>>> You might also try changing the permissions/owners on the symbolic
>>>> link
>>>> lirc to match the socket lirc0.
>>>>
>>>> Geoff
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