timeout reading byte 2

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I'm completely baffled by this one. Mode2 works fine. Irrecord works  
fine but when I run irw I get.

Any ideas why I'm getting timeout errors?

root@media:/home/media# irw
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root@media:/home/media# lircd -n -H macmini -d /dev/lirc0
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: lircd(macmini) ready
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: initializing '/dev/lirc0'
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 3
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 3
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 3
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 3
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: timeout reading byte 2
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: removed client
lircd-0.8.4a[6958]: closing '/dev/lirc0'