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...