Hi Comm: Thanks for trying <1> already. For <2>: Open up /etc/init.d/lirc. Find the part of the script that spawns lircd (around line 152 or so). Just add a "sleep 5" before that. (no quotes)
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:58, Comm <[email protected]> wrote: > @ Mario, > > Following upgrade to Maverick I am getting this issue. In an attempt to > help out I tried your suggestions - I have START_LIRCD="true". > > 1) this does not seem to fix it, same error occurs > 2) Not sure how to do this? > > -- > Can't start lirc: "lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid" > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474701 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu > Bug Team, which is subscribed to lirc in ubuntu. > > Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in “lirc” package in Arch Linux: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: lirc > > I have a Lifeview Flyvideo 2000 tv card and I got it to work, but lirc > refuses to work with the remote control. > > lspci: > 01:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video > Broadcast Decoder (rev 01) > > dmesg: > [ 19.201635] input: saa7134 IR (LifeView/Typhoon Fl as > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:07.0/input/input5 > > cat /proc/bus/input/devices: > I: Bus=0001 Vendor=5169 Product=0138 Version=0001 > N: Name="saa7134 IR (LifeView/Typhoon Fl" > P: Phys=pci-0000:01:07.0/ir0 > S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:07.0/input/input5 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=kbd event5 > B: EV=100003 > B: KEY=c0304 390000 0 0 0 0 0 0 c0000002 1e0000 0 0 10000ffc > > > And the remote worked when I did this: irrecord -H dev/input -d > /dev/input/eventX /tmp/my-remote > > Now when I try to start lirc, I get this: > $ sudo lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event5 > lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid > lircd: No such file or directory > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Wed Nov 4 17:40:58 2009 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu2 > ProcEnviron: > LANG=es_CL.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48+ureadahead2-generic > SourcePackage: lirc > Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mario Limonciello [email protected] -- Can't start lirc: "lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474701 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
