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trolley
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 Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 5:36 am Post subject: lircd 0.6.6 won't start **UPDATED WITH FIXES** |
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I cannot get lircd to start. First I got this error:
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* Starting lircd...
lircd 0.6.6: can't open or create /var/lib/run/lircd.pid
lircd 0.6.6: No such file or directory [ !! ]
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So I created the run directory in /var/lib because it didn't exist. Now I get:
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* Starting lircd...
lircd 0.6.6: could not open logfile
lircd 0.6.6: No such file or directory [ !! ]
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I don't even know where this logfile is, let alone why it can't be opened. Can anyone give some assistance?
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trolley
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| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:08 am Post subject: |
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Well, I eventually solved this, so I'll give the info here in case any other poor soul has the same trouble as me.
First, you will most likely want to send specific options to the configure script of lirc. Read the head of the lirc ebuild file, located in /usr/portage/app-misc/lirc for details. As an example, here are mine:
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export LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=winfast_tv2000 --with-syslog=LOG_DAEMON"; emerge lirc
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The driver name is determined from the list in the lirc ebuild. An important option I found is the --with-syslog=LOG_DAEMON. Lirc refused to start for me, no matter what I did, saying that it couldn't open the logfile. This option lets lirc use the syslog. You can look at other syslog facilities with
After lirc installs, part of the emerge output may include information about kernel modules which need to be loaded for your remote to work. For example I had to add
to my modules.autoload file.
If you used the --with-driver option earlier a working lircd.conf file for your remote should now be in /etc. If not, go to http://www.lirc.org/remotes/ and take a look for yours.
Finally, the lircd init script in /etc/init.d does not tell the lirc daemon to connect to the right device, since the device under devfs is different from the lircd default. This can be fixed by modifying the /etc/init.d/lircd file as follows:
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#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
depend()
{
need net
}
start()
{
ebegin "Starting lircd"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircd -- --device=/dev/lirc/0
eend $?
}
stop()
{
ebegin "Stopping lircd"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircd
eend $?
}
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/etc/init.d/lircd start
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as root to start the daemon. As I said in my first post, I got an error because the directory /usr/lib/run did not exist. If you get the same, just create the directory and try to start the daemon again.
Hopefully this will help any other Gentoo users having problems getting lirc up and running. Good luck  |
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hrnick
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| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 8:26 am Post subject: |
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Wow, I had the same problem but the --with-syslog=LOG_DAEMON option solved everything...
Thanks! |
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rommel
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| very cool , maybe a mod should move this to tips and tricks |
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thadk
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| Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| Ok, Thanks I finally got this working but I had a hang up with the official config file for the Leadtek 2000 XP with the old (not deluxe) style remote. I had to make up my own with irrecord (instructions to which I found here) |
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atac
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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got it working now aswell, lircd starts without errors, tho mode2 says /dev/lirc no such file or directory. and the only lirc i got in /dev is lircd ..
hm.
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darkphoenix16
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| great!!! this helped out a lot. thanks! |
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schmoli
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| atac wrote: | got it working now aswell, lircd starts without errors, tho mode2 says /dev/lirc no such file or directory. and the only lirc i got in /dev is lircd ..
hm. |
I'm at the same place! the install (with specifying my remote [winfast 2000 xp delux]) said I wouldn't need a kernel module, so what do I have to do to get that device up?
edit: well I didn't have to recompile my kernel, but I DID need to modprobe lirc_gpio, which created my /dev/lirc/0 device.
edit2: great well I run everything, but I can't get irw to return anything, and if i try to make a new lircd.conf using irrecord, it starts to work (I get some ...'s), but it just never does anything, and eventually I get tired and then get a "gap not found, can't continue" after a few seconds). |
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trolley
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| What version of lirc are you trying to install? My updating installed 0.7 but I had absolutely no luck with it. |
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schmoli
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| well I don't know why I couldn't get irrecord to work, but my big problem was I was using the wrong lircd.conf. I just blindly assumed that all the WinFast TV 2000 XP cards came with the same remote, but mine came with a "Cool Command Y0400046" remote instead of the one that is identified by the config that came with mythtv. If anyone needs that config file I can supply it. |
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grzewho
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| trolley wrote: | | What version of lirc are you trying to install? My updating installed 0.7 but I had absolutely no luck with it. |
my 0.7 version of lirc doesn`t work either. the problem is that modprobing the lirc_gpio and/or lirc_dev modules gives unresolved symbols. i`m running the latest gentoo-sources without any problems so far. any hints?
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haven
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:14 am Post subject: |
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Ditto the same as grzewho, I'm forced to compile lirc lirc-0.7.0_pre2 rather than 0.6.6-r1 as the latter fails to compile and yet I cannot spot any problems. I'm using the 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 gentoo sources and once lirc is compiled I try to modprobe lirc_gpio and I get:
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modprobe: Can't locate module lirc_gpio |
Any help appreciated, I'm still figuring my way around kernel modules/aliases etc so assume some stupidity on the part of the user
If all else fails I may try installing lirc from source rather than ebuild.
[UPDATE] - solved my own problem - two issues, firstly hadn't compiled in IrDA support *doh*, secondly - I had compiled in serial support but not as a module (caused conflicts with my hauppauge card).
Lirc now installed and apparently working. |
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