R5E50 was working, I thought R5F1 would be similar, so I did the auto upgrade (tv testcd)

1. boot from cd, copy files to hda1.
2. reboot from hda1, answer questions
(eth0 ignored my ip suggestions, made it get ip from dhcp, weird)
restored /home etc, db, just standard restore script, nothing special
and lirc streamzap remote works at this point in time!
3. reboot-- now streamzap remote stops working, but I think everything else is ok.

there were some restore errors,
./home/mythtv/.democracy/icon-cache...lots of those
and
/bin/tar: ./etc/default/aumix: Not found in archive
3407 /bin/tar: ./var/lib/alsa/asound.state: Not found in archive
3408 /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
......
3617 > ./home/mythtv/.serverauth.4058
3618 3366a3167,3168
3619 > ./root/.fuppes
3620 > ./root/.fuppes/fuppes.cfg
3621 3384a3187,3188
3622 > ./root/patcher.sh
3623 > ./root/patcher.sh.old
3624 Warning, file lists are not identical!

I can't figure this out.

root@/etc/lirc$: m hardware.conf
1 # /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
2 #
3 # Arguments which will be used when launching lircd
4 LIRCD_ARGS="-d /dev/lirc0"
5
6 #Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
7 START_LIRCMD=false
8
9 #Try to load appropriate kernel modules
10 LOAD_MODULES=true
11
12 # Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers.
13 DRIVER="default"
14 # If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0 will be
15 # automatically used instead
16 DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
17 MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_streamzap"
I changed line 4 above from "" to "-d /dev/lirc0"; but that didn't help. The remote worked fine
under r5E50.

I don't see errors in any log files:
messages:Jun 30 21:17:35 tvlode kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
messages:Jun 30 21:17:35 tvlode kernel: lirc_streamzap[-1]: Streamzap, Inc. Streamzap Remote Control on usb1:2 attached
messages:Jun 30 21:17:35 tvlode kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
messages:Jun 30 21:17:35 tvlode kernel: usbcore: registered new driver lirc_streamzap
messages:Jun 30 21:17:35 tvlode kernel: lirc_streamzap $Revision: 1.17 $ registered

any help is appreciated.

>>>UPDATE<<<

The problem seems to be the lircd deamon never launches. If i as root /etc/init.d/lirc start it, then log out of the mythtv account ( and it auto logs back in) then the Streamzap works!! So all is not lost. I don't know why the lircd deamon doesn't start.

On boot up I see an error, the sysfs didn't mount because it was mounted or busy. I look at /sys and there is lots of stuff there, so maybe it must be ok and have already been mounted.

Does anybody know what things to check to see why lircd doesn't start up?

Thanks for any help!