[Pkg-lirc-maint] Re: default_init: () No such device

[Amaya]

Hi there,

New uSER wrote:
> Sorry to bother you again, but i'm not getting any replies on thread
> attached below.  Is there any suggestions youcan provide for
> troubleshooting this issue?  I noticed that modules-assistant does not
> give a daemon as i would normally have when compiling lirc from
> source.  Is there an advantage of using one method over the other?
> Should i be doing both???

Yes, the first suggestion I would make is, if you are experiencing this
problem, to use the reportbug tool to file a bug in the Debian Bug
Tracking System, or to either email the lirc maintainers mailing list:
See the link at http://pkg-lirc.alioth.debian.org/ that points to:
https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=30487

In any of these ways, several experts in lirc can answer your questions,
and the plus of using the BTS is that other users that are in the same
trouble as you are can reply to the bug, add comments or how they fixed
it, or just confirm that the bug is there for them too.

I am sorry, but I really don't have much time atm to dedicate to
troubleshooting your problem, that's why I think "load-balancing" your
request in the right places can be a good solution for you :)

Please file a bug, include all the info you quoted in this email,
including as much detail as you can:

- Hardware you have
- Debian version
- Kernel version (Debian vainilla or custom?)
- Are you using udev? What version?
- All the other good info you already provided

Thanks for reporting these problems.

> I've been trying to get lirc going for the past few day but still cant
> get it to respond to irw tests.  Each time I start irw, lircd stops
> and reports that it can not access /dev/lirc which is there and
> available to all for read write access.  I've seen a number of people
> with this issue but none of the fixes seem to work in this scenario.
> 
> If you guys have any trouble shootings step for me i would be more
> than happy to try them out.
> 
> Please let me know what you think.
> 
> BTW I used module-assistant to install lirc which i was possitive
> would handle all dependency issue but i'm not so sure now.
> 
> # lsmod |grep lirc
> lirc_i2c                9092  0
> lirc_dev               13956  1 lirc_i2c
> i2c_core               19680  10
> lirc_i2c,cx88xx,bttv,wm8775,cx25840,tuner,ivtv,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_sis96x,tveeprom
> 
> # which lircd
> /usr/local/sbin/lircd
 
Why is lirc installed here? Are you using debian's lirc pàckage or your
own custom built one? The problem could be here. What version of lirc is
this?

> root at myth:~# cat /etc/modules.conf |grep lirc
> alias char-major-61 lirc_i2
> 
> # dpkg --get-selections "*lirc*"
> liblircclient-dev                               purge
> liblircclient0                                  purge
> lirc                                            purge
> lirc-modules-2.6.17-2-686                       purge
> lirc-modules-2.6.18-3-686                       install
> lirc-modules-source                             install
> lirc-x                                          purge

Again, I think you are mixing debian with custom built stuff and I am
not sure wether this will work, and might be the cause of your trouble.

> # /usr/local/sbin/lircd /etc/lircd.conf ; ps -ef |grep lirc
> root     10063     1  0 19:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/lircd /etc/lircd.conf
> root     10065  8728  0 19:11 pts/2    00:00:00 grep lirc
> 
> # cat /var/log/lircd
> 
> Dec 30 19:11:06 myth lircd: lircd(hauppauge) ready
> Dec 30 19:11:44 myth lircd: lircd(hauppauge) ready
> 
> # dmesg |grep lirc
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
> lirc_i2c: no version for "lirc_unregister_plugin" found: kernel tainted.
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
> 
> # irw; cat /var/log/lircd
> Dec 30 19:11:06 myth lircd: lircd(hauppauge) ready
> Dec 30 19:11:44 myth lircd: lircd(hauppauge) ready
> Dec 30 19:14:47 myth lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> Dec 30 19:14:47 myth lircd: could not open /dev/lirc
> Dec 30 19:14:47 myth lircd: default_init(): No such device
> Dec 30 19:14:47 myth lircd: caught signal
> 
> root at myth:~# ls -l /dev/lirc*
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 61, 0 2006-12-30 11:54 /dev/lirc
> srw-rw-rw- 1 root root     0 2006-12-30 19:11 /dev/lircd
> prw-rw-rw- 1 root root     0 2006-12-30 11:26 /dev/lircm

Thanks.


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