[mythtv-users] [SOLVED-ish] Lircd starting too late?

[Ben Lancaster]

> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been experiencing a few problems with LIRC starting too late  
> from
> > cold boots (or after a hard reset), in that Xorg and Mythfrontend
> > start up before the lircd process so mythfrontend is unable to  
> connect
> > to the lircd device. Restarting Mythfrontend fixes it, but it'd be
> > nice to figure out a permenant fix. The other symptom is that
> > mythlcdserver is unable to make use of the VFD in my case unless I
> > kill and restart mythlcdserver.
> >
> > I'm running Mythbuntu 9.10 with Avenard's packages (didn't work with
> > the Mythbuntu debs either), and replaced XFCE with Ratpoison. The
> > remove uses the lirc_mceusb2, and the VFD uses the lirc_imon kmod.
> >
> > Here's what Mythfrontend says:
> >
> > mythtv: could not connect to socket
> > mythtv: No such file or directory
> > 2009-07-06 20:03:05.923 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding
> > messages
> >
> > I can't see anything untoward in dmesg or messages, and chkconfig
> > shows that lirc should trigger when entering runlevel 2 through to  
> 5:
> >
> > # chkconfig --list | grep lirc
> > lirc                      0:off  1:off  2:on   3:on   4:on   5:on
> > 6:off
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any pointers
> >
> > Ben
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Whats your dmesg report?
> Maybe put a delay on myth to confirm, or restart the frontend/X, not  
> the
> entire machine, as that would be pointless.
>
> Marc

So it turns out that netatalk was doing something weird and causing  
the problem. No longer needed it so I just turned it off; now  
everything's running tickety-boo.
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