Re: LIRC hanging on Ubuntu 2.6.31-17 on startup

[Greg O. <oli...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Nugent, Lee
<Lee...@ku...> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> The output from aptitude show lirc is:
>
> Package: lirc
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 0.8.6-0ubuntu2
> Priority: extra
> Section: universe/utils
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubu...@li...>
> Uncompressed Size: 2,507k
> Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.18), libc6 (>= 2.7), libftdi1 (>= 0.16),
>         liblircclient0 (>= 0.6.4), libusb-0.1-4 (>= 2:0.1.12), debconf (>= 0.5)
>         | debconf-2.0, lsb-base, setserial
> Recommends: udev
> Suggests: lirc-modules-source, lirc-x
> Conflicts: makedev (< 2.3.1-88)
> Description: infra-red remote control support
>  LIRC stands for 'Linux Infra-red Remote Control'.
>
> I will modify the load_modules variable and reboot the box over and over to try and reproduce the freezing.
>

If you still have an older kernel installed, try booting it as well.
If it does not lock up without the modules loaded, then there may be a
hardware issue.  Can you also boot without the quiet and splash
options on your kernel line?

-Greg

>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Oliver [mailto:oli...@gm...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:45 AM
> To: Nugent, Lee
> Cc: lir...@li...
> Subject: Re: LIRC hanging on Ubuntu 2.6.31-17 on startup
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Nugent, Lee
> <Lee...@ku...> wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> dmesg --> http://pastebin.com/m2a9fe82b
>>
>> hardware.conf --> http://pastebin.com/m2645a074
>>
>> I am assuming that you are asking for the contents of hardware.conf.  Also, will dmesg show us anything since when it freezes I have to forcefully reboot the box?  I thought dmesg starts over at each reboot.
>>
>
> Hmmm..  Everything looks good to me.  The correct modules are loading.
>  What is the output from "aptitude show lirc"?
>
> Do you have "proposed" and "backports" enabled by chance for software
> updates..  NM - I see you are running a pae kernel - I guess 32 bit on
> a 64 bit host?  I am not sure if it is related, but someone was having
> a similar problem a couple of days ago.
>
> I assume the machine boots fine with the remote unplugged?  If you
> modify your hardware.conf to load_modules=false and reboot does the
> problem go away?  I know the remote will not work, but just trying to
> isolate it..
>
> -Greg
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lee
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg Oliver [mailto:oli...@gm...]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:49 PM
>> To: Nugent, Lee
>> Cc: lir...@li...
>> Subject: Re: LIRC hanging on Ubuntu 2.6.31-17 on startup
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Nugent, Lee
>> <Lee...@ku...> wrote:
>>> I installed a new minimal installation of Karmic on 2 PC's (for HTPC
>>> use) yesterday and apparently there has been an update that is causing
>>> LIRC to hang occasionally on startup.  Two weeks ago I installed minimal
>>> Karmic on two other machines and they don't have this problem.  The only
>>> difference is the kernel has been updated.  Anyway this is where it is
>>> hanging (occasionally):
>>>
>>> *Loading LIRC Modules
>>> lirc-0.8.6[774]:lircd(default) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
>>
>> Do you know which modules it is trying to load..  Post  your hardware
>> settings and the appropriate dmesg output as well..
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lee
>>>
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