Re: Lircd Socket - Irexec will not connect

[James A R B. <jam...@gm...>]

On 13/04/15 09:39, Alec Leamas wrote:
> On 13/04/15 10:09, James A R Brown wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tried building lirc 0.9.2+ on top of Ubuntu 14.04, as Ubuntu not
>> shipping with anything newer than 0.9.0. Not even a working PPA.
>>
>> I can get lirc all running ok, works fine in Mythtv, but I am having
>> trouble with irexec and other lirc apps not finding the lircd socket.
>>
>> The lircd process is up as
>>
>> root@tvlounge:~# ps ax |grep lirc
>>
>> 25414 pts/5    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto lirc
>>
>> 32145 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd 
>> --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0
>>
>> root@tvlounge:~# lircd -v
>>
>> lircd 0.9.2a
>>
>> root@tvlounge:~# uname -p
>>
>> x86_64
>>
>>
>> But, irexec gives
>>
>> root@tvlounge:~# irexec /etc/lirc/lircrc
>>
>> do_connect: could not connect to socket
>>
>> connect: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> irw
>>
>> connect: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> But push the socket and it works
>>
>> root@tvlounge:~# irw /var/run/lirc/lircd
>>
>> 0000000000000002 00 KEY_UP beo5
>>
>> 0000000000000002 01 KEY_UP beo5
>>
>> 0000000000000002 02 KEY_UP beo5
>>
>>
>> Have even tried pushing the environment variable mentioned in man irexec
>>
>> root@tvlounge:~# LIRC_SOCKET_PATH=/var/run/lirc/lircd
>>
>> root@tvlounge:~# echo $LIRC_SOCKET_PATH
>>
>> /var/run/lirc/lircd
>>
>> root@tvlounge:~# irexec /etc/lirc/lircrc
>>
>> do_connect: could not connect to socket
>>
>> connect: No such file or directory
>>
>
> Here are many things to check:
>
> - Is the socket available and accessible (ls -l /var/run/lirc/lircd)?
> - Have you exported the shell variable (export LIRC_SOCKET_PATH)?
> - Is there any useful info in the logs (syslog as long as you don't 
> use a log file argument)?
> - Is there anything in the logs after raising the log level (e. g., 
> using --loglevel=debug to lircd?)
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> --alec
>
>
Hi Alec,

1) Yes
root@tvlounge:~# ls -l /var/run/lirc/lircd
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Apr 13 09:04 /var/run/lirc/lircd

2)  *Doh*
Exported and irexec now works

3) Nothing exceptional..... tried also to start irw and irexec, but 
nothing appended to log

root@tvlounge:~# lircd --loglevel=debug --driver=default 
--device=/dev/lirc0 -n /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Warning: Running as root
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Info: Using remote: beo5.
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Info: Using remote: kinivq.
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Info: Using remote: rmt-b128p.
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Info: Using remote: rmt-b128p-tv.
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Info: Using remote: SONY_RMT_B104P.
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Info: Using remote: SONY.
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Warning: SONY: garbage after 'name' token in line 
76 ignored
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Notice: lircd(default) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
lircd-0.9.2a[24777]: Notice: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd


So still wondering why irw and irexec can not find the right path.... is 
there a configure option? I have just re-run, ./configure (no options), 
make clean, make, make install and still irw and irexec do not find the 
socket without being pushed in the right direction.

James