Re: lirc_mceusb in 0.8.6 (and current CVS) hanging after a few button presses.

[Neal A. <ne...@al...>]

Welp, spoke too soon.  Started failing again even after recompile.

After removing all the ubuntu modules for lirc etc, I did a source
checkout pre-merge, and still had the problem.  Command I did was:
cvs -z8 -d:pserver:ano...@li...:/cvsroot/lirc co
-D "Jun 20 2009" lirc

This was revision 1.84, and I verified it loaded lirc_mceusb2.  This
again froze, same issue.

After uninstalling the CVS, I then downloaded .8.4a from sourceforge,
and compiled/rebooted.  Now it's 100% stable this time (I waited before
sending this note this time).  It's been ~1hr of successful use, whereas
I would only ever get about 10mins, if that.

Once I have some time (been battling for a few days), I can try rolling
forward versions if you have some recommendations of revisions to try,
until I get another failure.

Neal.


On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:28 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Neal Alberda <ne...@al...> wrote:
> > Not sure what's going on, but hopefully someone can help.  The sensor
> > worked fine as lirc_mceusb2 on 0.8.4 (Ubuntu Jaunty), but since the
> > merge of mceusb and mceusb2,
> 
> Can you prove that it was the merge that broke things? i.e., if you
> run a pre-merge lirc_mceusb2 with your current system, does it behave
> correctly? I ask, because I have three lirc_mceusb-driven devices that
> all work perfectly with the merged driver (one original mceusb
> devices, two mceusb2 devices)...
> 
> > seems to be hanging after a few button
> > presses (approx 5-10 presses).  I've posted a debug from loading the
> > module with debug=1, of when it hangs.. I also cannot unload the driver,
> > and can do nothing except reboot.
> 
> I presume you're running the latest Ubuntu release now? A few people
> have reported similar issues, but with a specific model of
> transceiver. This is the first I've seen that suggests the problem may
> not be with a specific transceiver, but rather something else... I
> don't have a clue what else specifically though. As I said, all three
> of my mceusb devices work perfectly fine with the merged driver on
> Fedora. Before jumping to any conclusions though, please see if your
> transceiver works with your current install with an older pre-merge
> lirc_mceusb2 loaded.
>