Lirc stops working

hey guys im having some trouble with Lirc, it all works fine but out of nowhere it stops working then after a reboot it works again

anyone have any ideas?

latumus Wrote:hey guys im having some trouble with Lirc, it all works fine but out of nowhere it stops working then after a reboot it works again

anyone have any ideas?

You could try unplugging the dongle and plug it back in when it happens if not then give us some details, what remote are you using, what does you /etc/lirc/hardware.conf and lircd.conf look like.

like cat /var/log/syslog - The last few lines of this file.
and dmesg | grep -i lirc
and ls -l /dev/lirc*
and ps ax | grep lirc
lircd --version
xbmc rev ppa or svn

And finally a log file or debug report would help.

rgds,

Dave

im running xbmc vdpau latest svn
but xbmc isnt the problem seeing 'irw' wont give output either when it starts to fail

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0471:060c Philips

and im using a logitech harmony 885 configured as philips srm5100 mceusb remote

i hope this is all the info you requested


syslog:

Mar 6 13:05:33 sodom kernel: [ 76.440025] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
Mar 6 13:05:33 sodom kernel: [ 76.665965] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Mar 6 13:05:33 sodom kernel: [ 76.836029] usb 2-3: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
Mar 6 13:05:33 sodom kernel: [ 77.045964] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
Mar 6 13:05:33 sodom kernel: [ 77.051748] lirc_mceusb2[3]: BB+ Dongle(e.d) on usb2:3
Mar 6 13:05:33 sodom lircd-0.8.3[5771]: caught signal
Mar 6 13:05:33 sodom lircd-0.8.3[6252]: lircd(userspace) ready
Mar 6 13:06:08 sodom lircd-0.8.3[6252]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Mar 6 13:06:25 sodom kernel: [ 128.764523] ppdev0: registered pardevice
Mar 6 13:06:25 sodom python: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Mar 6 13:06:25 sodom kernel: [ 128.812258] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
Mar 6 13:06:25 sodom kernel: [ 128.842127] ppdev0: registered pardevice
Mar 6 13:06:25 sodom hp: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Mar 6 13:06:25 sodom kernel: [ 128.888247] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
Mar 6 13:06:26 sodom kernel: [ 129.968453] ppdev0: registered pardevice
Mar 6 13:06:26 sodom kernel: [ 130.012039] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice

~# dmesg | grep -i lirc
[ 26.626820] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
[ 26.645418] lirc_mceusb2: Philips eHome USB IR Transceiver and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC $Revision: 1.44 $
[ 26.645422] lirc_mceusb2: Daniel Melander <lirc@rajidae.se>, Martin Blatter <martin_a_blatter@yahoo.com>
[ 26.650905] usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_mceusb2
[ 77.045964] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
[ 77.051748] lirc_mceusb2[3]: BB+ Dongle(e.d) on usb2:3


~# ls -l /dev/lirc*
crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 2009-03-06 13:05 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2009-03-06 13:05 /dev/lircd

ps ax | grep lirc
6252 ? S<s 0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
6429 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep lirc


~# lircd --version
lircd 0.8.3

Is this with it working?

I would try moving the USB dongle to another USB port and off that particular bus also check your /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file and make sure that in the remote section you have DEVICE="/dev/lirc0" and the MODULES sections reads "lirc_dev lirc_mceusb2" and then

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart. See if that works.

you can also put your modules in /etc/modules to force load on startup but with 8.10 they automagically start any how if you do this then you had better change the load MODULES in your hardware.conf file to "false" or it will try and load the lirc_mceusb2 module more than once. One more thing you may try as well is below this will put your lirc startup back in the order of loading if by chance it was moved down the list, I have this issue in the past where it moved it to like s and k 90 instead of 20 or 21.

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop

sudo update-rc.d -f lirc remove

sudo update-rc.d lirc defaults

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart

Dave

yes above is with working remote
gonna try the suggestions now

and indeed when i plug out and plug in (in the same socket it works)

ok its still not working tried all steps you've said

when i turn on my box the ir receiver doesnt seem to be started (no green light on it)
then when i plug out the usb and plug it back in (in the same slot) it works.

then after a while it just stops working

Have you tried plugging it into another USB port alltogether and not the same one this is sometimes a common problem in linux. Try another port and restart the system or restart lirc.

Dave

yup, same problem

after it stops taking input lirc seems to still be running

root 6363 0.0 0.0 18012 716 ? S<s 13:04 0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0

also the ir device registers all input the remote gives
irw shows up nothing