Re: inconsistent behavior of lircd when running as lirc user

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I set loglevel =3D 10 and logfile =3D /tmp/lirc.log in /etc/lirc/lirc_optio=
ns.conf in an attempt to find some clues as to what is going wrong.=C2=A0 I=
 attached two log files:

1.=C2=A0broken.log.txt
2.=C2=A0working.log.txt

working.log.txt shows the events when the things are working, ie when I run=
 /usr/bin/irw the key presses look correct.

broken.log.txt is when things are not working.

If I diff the two logs.=C2=A0 I do not see anything standing out as helpful=
 in debugging further.=C2=A0 The only real difference is that in the workin=
g state, there are 3 lines that are not present in the broken state:

lircd: Warning: Obsolete devinput config file used
Notice: Use the distributed devinput.lircd.dist by renaming it
Notice: Or use irdb-get to search for "devinput" and download it.


On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 09:16:58 PM EST, John via LIRC-list <lirc-li=
[email protected]> wrote:=20

I am finding that lircd when configured to run as the lirc user[1] inconsis=
tently works with my Stream Zap IR remote.=C2=A0 For example, using irw whe=
n things are working gives the expected result:

% irw
0000000080010160 00 KEY_OK devinput-32
0000000080010067 00 KEY_UP devinput-32
000000008001006c 00 KEY_DOWN devinput-32

However, most of the time (maybe 9/10 reboots) things are not working.=C2=
=A0 In this state, I get output like this:

% irw
^[[A^[[B

The distro is ArchLinux ARM (aarch64) running lirc 1:0.10.1-11.=C2=A0 Hardw=
are is RPi4B.=C2=A0 Any suggestion are appreciated.

If I run lircd as root, it seems to consistently work as expected.

1. https://www.lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html#appendix-14


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