[mythtv-users] LIRCD will load as root.. But not as mythtv?

[Michael Jones]

Tried this..(and a few other permutations) Still doesn't work. When I start
from the rc.local file things seem to start, but the service seems to become
inaccessible.  If I run irw nothing happens.

The only way this seems to work is if I "manually" start it from the command
line.. 


> From: Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:41:09 +0100
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] LIRCD will load as root.. But not as mythtv?
> 
> On 24/04/06, Michael Jones <m_g_j at michaelandholly.com> wrote:
>> Devan,
>> 
>> Thanks for the response..  But..
>> 
>> Rebooting the system and running lsmod doesn't show anything lirc.
>> 
>> When I run modprobe lirc_i2c as root, it works perfectly.  When I run it as
>> mythtv it fails.
>> 
>> Before the modprobe lirc_i2c as root, the file /var/run/lirc.pid doesn't
>> exist.
>> 
>> Before modprobe lirc_i2c there's an entry /dev:
>> 
>> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root    0 Apr 23 23:48 lircd
>> 
>> If I run (logged in as mythtv rather than root)
>> 
>> # sudo modprobe lirc_i2c
>> 
>> It works, and in /dev:
>> 
>> crw-------  1 root root 61, 0 Apr 23 23:52 lirc
>> crw-------  1 root root 61, 0 Apr 23 23:52 lirc0
>> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Apr 23 23:48 lircd
>> 
>> If I enter:
>> 
>> # sudo service lircd start
>> 
>> Things work just fine.
>> 
>> If I put the sudo'd commands in the startup script.. Things don't work.
>> 
>> I'm having a hard time believing that it's strictly permission related.
>> Especially since I didn't change any permissions after updating from .18 to
>> .19 (at least not intentionally).
> 
> In your /etc/rc.local file, add
> 
> /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
> sleep 2
> chmod 777 /dev/lirc*
> service lircd start
> 
> 
> You don't need to sudo (to root) commands in rc.local as the file is
> executed as root at startup. The second command will give rwx
> permssions to all users before starting LIRC. You also don't need to
> keep executing depmod unless you are changing installed driver
> modules.
> 
> Nick
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