lircd 0.8.3 hanging at initialization

[Michelle D. <su...@oc...>]

I've been working through some newly installed lirc problems, and have now
gotten as far as lirc successfully connecting to /dev/input/event3 (my DVB
NOVA-S card).  

When I start lirc (as below), the first 2 lines appear and the console waits
at "lircd(userspace) ready".  Then, when I start IRW on that machine I see
lircd "initializing '/dev/input/event3'.  However, lircd seems hung at this
point.

What is going on?  I can tell the remote works because the remote arrow keys
are translated to keyboard arrow keys.  My lirc version is
0.8.3-73_cvs20071109.fc6.  I tried stepping back to version 0.8.2 but lircd
would not recognize the dev/input device.

HELP!
	 
	[root@theatre2 dev]/usr/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event3
-n
	lircd-0.8.3-CVS[13776]: lircd(userspace) ready
	lircd-0.8.3-CVS[13776]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
	lircd-0.8.3-CVS[13776]: initializing '/dev/input/event3'