[ATrpms-users] EL5: mythtv vs. lirc

[Marcel Telka]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:50:42AM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Marcel Telka <marcel at telka.sk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > After update of the lirc packages (to version 0.8.7) on my CentOS 5.5
> > frontend the MythTV stopped to accept my remotes. I noticed the irw works
> > correctly, so I assume the lirc API (in liblirc_client.so) somehow
> > changed and mythtv is now unable to work correctly.
> >
> > Downgrade to previous version 0.8.4a helped.
> >
> > Is mythtv recompilation needed?
> >
> >
> >
> Hi,
> 
> lircd 0.8.7 does not start unless one do as root:
> 
> mkdir /var/run/lirc

Hi Paulo,

Yes. This was the first issue. I already fixed it. Without it the irw
would not work. To be honest I didn't do the following:

> 
> chcon -u system_u -t lircd_var_run_t /var/run/lirc

But while irw worked for me I assume the issue is at the mythtv side
now. Please note both irexec and irsend worked too, so I really suspect
mythtv...

> 
> This was for rhel6, but I think rhel5 should require a similar procedure,
> until the rpm is fixed ...

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