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[Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I see two potential areas that might be causing this.

Please undo the current hacks (and set START_LIRCD to true) and try
these (one at a time):

1) The udev rules for LIRC.  Can you please try to comment them out (they're in /lib/udev/rules.d) and reboot?
2) The upstart job mount-varrun is racing with the init script.  Try adding a sleep statement at the beginning of the init script for a few second and see if that helps.  This isn't a proper solution, but if it fixes it then switching to an upstart drop will help.

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Can't start lirc: "lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474701
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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