could not open /dev/lirc

[Stephan <wi...@wh...>]

Hi!

I'm using lirc 0.6.5 on a Debian-System more than six months without
problems. But from today, starting lircd results in the following errors
in syslog:

| lircd-0.6.5[1904]: lircd(any) ready
| lircd-0.6.5[1904]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
| lircd-0.6.5[1904]: could not open /dev/lirc
| lircd-0.6.5[1904]: default_init(): No such device 
| lircd-0.6.5[1904]: caught signal

But all files are right set:

| aiur:/# ll /dev/lirc*
| crw-rw----    1 root   root    61,  0 27. Apr 09:03 /dev/lirc
| srw-rw-rw-    1 root   root         0 27. Apr 09:05 /dev/lircd
| prw-rw-rw-    1 root   root         0 24. Feb 01:45 /dev/lircm

Can anyone help me to solve this problem?

TIA
Stephan

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