Bug 219569

Summary:	app-misc/lirc-0.8.3_pre1 - won't start from init since udev-119 installed (/dev/usb/hiddev0)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Allan K <sonofzev>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	udev maintainers <udev-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	media-tv
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Allan K 2008-04-28 05:06:30 UTC

Hi 

Since I did my latest update on the weekend which included a udev update. lircd will not start from the init script provided. However, lircd will start from commandline and when added to /etc/conf.d/local.start. This behaviour has been consistent on 2 systems. 1 is an opteron170 (32 bit march=athlon-xp). The other is a Pentium4 (32-bit march=i686) 

The output in /var/log/messages when trying to run a client (irw) is 
Apr 28 14:28:54 media1 lircd-0.8.3pre1[15321]: initializing '/dev/usb/hiddev0'
Apr 28 14:28:54 media1 lircd-0.8.3pre1[15321]: unable to open '/dev/usb/hiddev0'

I can manually run lircd using lircd --driver=dvico --device=/dev/hiddev0 

My /etc/conf.d/lircd file contains the following line which worked without issue before the update. 

LIRCD_OPTS="--driver=dvico --device=/dev/usb/hiddev0"

cheers

Allan 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make sure no lircd processes are running (stop any init processes or killall lircd) 

2. Issue "/etc/init.d/lircd start" 

3. execute irw twice 


Actual Results:  
First attempt of running irw it returns a cursor. 

second attempt returns 
"connect: Connection refused" 

before going back to the cursor. 

See description for output from /var/log/messages 





Expected Results:  
irw normal behaviour is to wait for input from the remote and display it on the screen.

Comment 1 Matthias Schwarzott gentoo-dev

2008-04-28 07:24:09 UTC

Not finding device nodes that existed before is a udev issue.

You explicitly write about udev-119. What was the last version of udev that worked?