Irexec doesn't start at boot, but starts after relogin to WM

dancer_69 · 05-30-2011, 02:39 AM

Hello,
I'm trying to make lircd and irexec to start automatic at boot, but I've managed to succeed only with lircd.
After a lot of search and different actions, lircd starts at boot time after I put on /etc/rc.local the above:

Code:

sleep 15
service lirc restart

I tried to put a similar line for irexc

Code:

sleep 10
irexec -d /home/zaxus/.lircrc

but this doesn't work(I tried without sleep and with sleep 10, but didn't change anything)
From the output of "ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -i irexec" I can tell that doesn't load.
If I logout and login again, both lircd and irexec starting.
This happens after I added the following script to startup applications:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Launcher for IREXEC because it's STUPID and won't launch properly in startup scripts!
killall lircd
sleep 3
/usr/bin/lircd
sleep 3
irexec -d ~/.lircrc
exit 0

So the only problem which remain is to find a way to make irexec to start and on boot.
Any ideas or help for a workaround?

dancer_69 · 05-30-2011, 08:39 AM

I've managed to make both lircd and irexec working after a reboot with these on rc.local:

Code:

service lirc restart
sleep 10
/usr/bin/irexec -d ~/.lircrc
sleep 15
exit 0

I had the sleep functions above the commands. Seems that needed to be after them.

I have another related with lirc problem, with irxevent. I can run it without to get eny error, but doesn't respond to the remote's buttons.
I want to use it mostly for simulate the arrows and enter keys to navigate on desktop. So I can use another similar program if there is any.
Any ideas on that?

kambo_rambo · 09-10-2011, 02:52 AM

wow thanks. i been looking everywhere trying to find out why irexec daemon wouldn't start in startup scripts, but it turns out its not just me