On both 8.6.0 and 8.6.1 I've had an intermittent LIRC issue that happens infrequently. Sometimes when I power the machine up, the remote is unresponsive and if I ssh into the machine, LIRC is using 100% of CPU. It seems that the only way to recover is a reboot of the machine. Today I tried "sudo sv restart remotes" and it was no longer using 100% CPU, but the mythwelcome screen still did not respond to button presses. I tried "killall mythwelcome" to restart mythwelcome and it restarted but still did not respond to button presses. Ultimately, I rebooted the machine and it was fine on the next boot.
I don't see anything obvious in the logs, but when I tried to restart "remotes" I get these messages:
Code:
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Info: Using remote: Streamzap_PC_Remote.
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Notice: lircd(default) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Notice: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Info: Cannot configure the rc device for /dev/lirc0
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Error: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: default_init(): No such file or directory
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Warning: Failed to initialize hardware
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Error: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: default_init(): No such file or directory
Aug 20 06:20:56 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Notice: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
Aug 20 06:20:57 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Error: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
Aug 20 06:20:57 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: default_init(): No such file or directory
Aug 20 06:20:58 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Error: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
Aug 20 06:20:58 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: default_init(): No such file or directory
Aug 20 06:20:59 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Error: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
Aug 20 06:20:59 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: default_init(): No such file or directory
Aug 20 06:21:00 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Error: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
Aug 20 06:21:00 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: default_init(): No such file or directory
Aug 20 06:21:01 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: Error: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
Aug 20 06:21:01 linhes lircd-0.10.1[3047]: default_init(): No such file or directory
It seems that I've had USB issues a couple times in the past and I don't know if this could be related to the motherboard or streamzap receiver hardware or if it is more likely software. Also if I could somehow automatically detect and recover from this it would be helpful as well.