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

[Rafał Rutkowski]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:47:53 +0100, Stephen Gran <sgran at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

That's it. A line
   DEVICE="UNCONFIGURED"
appeared in the hardware.conf file after the update. I don't know how I  
could have missed it. It wasn't there before the 0.8 version, that's for  
sure. Removing the line makes the init script use the /dev/lirc0 device  
and solves the problem. And the problem was obviously no bug :)

Thank you for your time

-- 
Rafał Rutkowski
rrutkowski at gmail.com