I had the same problem on my FC3 box. To fix it, I created a symlink: # ln -s /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc
That creates a link from /dev/lirc to /dev/lirc0, so lircd is able to see the device. -Scott On 9/28/05, Jeff Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Scott Minneman J.D. Candidate, 2007 The George Washington University Law School _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
