[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#394663: lirc: daemon quits when a client tries to connect

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Rafał Rutkowski said:
> When the daemon is started by init.d/lirc script, it quits when a client
> (tested with mplayer and KDE lirc) tries to connect. It leaves the
> following messages in the syslog:
> Oct 22 15:26:34 rudy lircd-0.8.0[5594]: could not get file information for UNCONFIGURED
> Oct 22 15:26:34 rudy lircd-0.8.0[5594]: default_init(): No such file or directory

This is the hint - it should be looking at /dev/lirc0, not UNCONFIGURED.

> However, if the daemon is started manually by invoking
> lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
> (as root), everything works fine.

This is because you haven't yet configured lircd.conf or hardware.conf.
It is arguably a flaw in lirc that it will start without knowing what
hardware to talk to, but it's a design flaw, rather than a bug.

To double check that I'm not just making this up, can you send the
output of sh -x /etc/init.d//lirc start, so that I can be sure that it
really is starting without a --device line?

Thanks,
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