Comment 13 for bug 474701

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote : Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 474701] Re: Can't start lirc: "lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid"

Hi Comm:

Thanks for trying <1> already. For <2>:
Open up /etc/init.d/lirc. Find the part of the script that spawns lircd
(around line 152 or so). Just add a "sleep 5" before that. (no quotes)

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:58, Comm <email address hidden> wrote:

> @ Mario,
>
> Following upgrade to Maverick I am getting this issue. In an attempt to
> help out I tried your suggestions - I have START_LIRCD="true".
>
> 1) this does not seem to fix it, same error occurs
> 2) Not sure how to do this?
>
> --
> Can't start lirc: "lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474701
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>
> 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
>
>
>
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Mario Limonciello
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