I see two potential areas that might be causing this. Please undo the current hacks (and set START_LIRCD to true) and try these (one at a time):
1) The udev rules for LIRC. Can you please try to comment them out (they're in /lib/udev/rules.d) and reboot? 2) The upstart job mount-varrun is racing with the init script. Try adding a sleep statement at the beginning of the init script for a few second and see if that helps. This isn't a proper solution, but if it fixes it then switching to an upstart drop will help. -- 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
