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[gogloid <474701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I have tried to change the value of START_LIRCD to true and the result was following (on Ubuntu 10.04.1, after reboot):

The folder /var/run/lirc was created, but lircd.pid in it was not
created. That meant that it was not working and even my workaround was
not working (because it tests only for the existence of folder).

In the end I reversed all my changes (START_LIRCD=false and I made the
workaround functional again) and it works.

Tomas

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Can't start lirc: "lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid"
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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