Ok, here's what happens when i try to reinstall lirc

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# yum install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
atrpms                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 346 kB    00:00
updates-re: ################################################## 992/992
Added 50 new packages, deleted 25 old in 1.55 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4
Nothing to do
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#               

Any idea why this is happening? It worked fine a few weeks ago when I rebooted last.


On 10/17/05, Allan Mcintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Verify the permissions on the lirc devices are 666

I am pretty sure once I had to pass --permission=666
--device=/dev/lirc/lirc0 because the devices were created with 600
permissions and lircd was looking for /dev/lirc which was actually a
directory....


Ant Daniel wrote:

>
>
> On 10/17/05, *Jon Kunze* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote:
>
>     I tried the symlink, and it seemed to work... until i rebooted.
>
>     So now I've got bigger problems. Like before, I uninstalled lirc
>     via yum and then tried to reinstall yum, which fixed the problem
>     before, but only until I rebooted.
>
>     I did the following
>
>     # yum remove lirc-kmdl-$KVER
>     # yum remove lirc
>
>     then I did
>
>     # yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER
>           This line fails as it says there is no match for my kernel
>     # yum install lirc
>           This one goes fine
>
>     Then I do the
>
>     # /sbin/depmod -a
>     # /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
>           No moduble lirc_i2c found
>     # /sbin/chkconfig lircd on
>     # /sbin/service lircd start      [OK]
>
>     Then when I run either irw or mythfrontend, I get "lircd dead, but
>     subsys locked" again.
>
>
>     Any ideas on this? Unfortunately I'm at work right now, so I can't
>     put the exact error messages in this email, but I will be able to
>     later tonight if anyone has any ideas. Thanks.
>
>
>
>     On 9/30/05, *Nick* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote:
>
>         On 30/09/05, Jon Kunze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jon Kunze < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>
>> Date: Sep 29, 2005 7:08 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but
>         crashes as soon as
>> something tries to use it
>> To: Nate Thompson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>>
>> Ok, when I try the symlink, it says /dev/lirc already exists.
>         Any ideas?
>> Removing the /dev/lirc and the doing the symlink goes
>         through, but still
>> when I start the frontend lirc locks.
>
>         Does the LIRC log give any useful info when it fails now?
>
>         You can also start lircd using the parameter --device=/dev/lirc0 -
>         does this work at all?
>
>         Nick
>
>
>
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>
> After a recent update I was also having this problem (using FC3) when
> the symlink is set there was no problems, but the link was lost on reboot.
>
> I solved it on my setup by editing /etc/sysconfig/lircd:
> # Options to lircd
> LIRCD_OPTIONS="-d /dev/lirc0"
>
> This then gets lircd to look at the already existing /dev/lirc0 rather
> than the missing /dev/lirc
>
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