Re: lircd "delay" that lasts a minute or so?

[David F. <da...@fr...>]

So -- confirmation that I'm not alone -- at least that's something ;)

I'll check out the cvs tree and build from source if that doesnt' fix 
it, I'll start debugging.

-Dave

Jake Briggs wrote:
> I am seeing this behaviour as well, using 0.8
>
> captainspaulding ~ # lircd -v
> lircd 0.8.0
> captainspaulding ~ #
>
> I see there is a new version of lirc :) Might have to try updating....
>
> jake
>
>
> David Frascone wrote:
>> I'm using lirc_serial / lircd, and I'm seeing strange behavior.  
>> Every once in a while, lircd stops sending remote events to apps.  
>> This behavior lasts for a minute or so -- then it starts working 
>> again.  No logs, no errors, nothing in dmesg.
>>
>> I've run strace on it (strace -p <lircd pid>), and I can see that 
>> lircd is getting data from /dev/lirc0 when a button is pressed on the 
>> remote -- but it does *not* write any data out to applications 
>> waiting for data.  The machine is not particularly busy when this 
>> happens.  I'm running version 0.8.1.
>>
>> So -- the questions:
>> Has anyone else seen this behavior?
>> What would be the best way to debug?  I didn't see anything in the 
>> man pages about increasing the debug level.
>> Should I attempt to reproduce with code from CVS?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>>   
>

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David Frascone

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