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Old 01-07-2007, 02:53 PM   #1
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lircd starts but then crashes as soon as connection made


I am using lirc-0.8.1-CVS, which I installed yesterday.(I see that it was just released today as the newest stable version ).

Everything was working fine until I rebooted this morning. The lircd daemon started up fine, but whenever a connection to it was attempted (with irexec or irkick), lircd would crash.

It seems that lircd looks for /dev/lirc, which doesn't exist on my machine, so I made a sym link:

Code:
ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc
and this seemed to have solved it...

but no: no signals from the remote are *NOT* getting through...

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Old 01-07-2007, 03:17 PM   #2
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Reinstalled 0.8.1 (stable), and same problem:

/dev/lirc and /dev/lircm are present after install, but disappear on reboot.
 
Old 01-07-2007, 03:25 PM   #3
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Oops, the answer is here:
http://www.lirc.org/html/install.html
Sorry folks

After reboot, I am left with /dev/lirc0 and /dev/lircd
I have to start lircd as such:
Code:
lircd --device /dev/lirc0
 
  


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