Can't get MCE_USB remotes to work on 10.04 MDs

[kyfalcon]

Can't get my remotes to work on my 10.04 MDs. Anybody have any tricks?

Thanks,
Kevin

[fibres]

Interesting.
I have had the same issue.
I had not bothered looking into it too far as having a couple of other issues that are more important at moment!

Regards

[tschak909]

is the LIRC_DCE process running?

-Thom

[kyfalcon]

I'll have to check when I get home. I am assuming this will be in the DCERouter log?

[tschak909]

look for the running process with ps auwwx

-Thom

[kyfalcon]

gotcha thanks!

[fibres]

I have just reinstalled my core. I will connect the mce_usb and check then. Ill have a look later this evening when I get back from work.

Regards

[kyfalcon]

Hey Thom it is not running. How do I get it running. I have set it up in the web admin

Thx,
Kevin

[tschak909]

is it installed?

If not, the pluto-lirc-wrapper package needs to be installed.

-Thom

[fibres]

Ok

Just tried apt-get install pluto-lirc-wrapper and got the following error


Failed to fetch http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/dists/lucid/beta2/binary-i386/lirc_0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2+lmce1_i386.deb  Size mismatch
Failed to fetch http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/dists/lucid/beta2/binary-i386/lirc-modules-source_0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2+lmce1_all.deb  Size mismatch
Failed to fetch http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/dists/lucid/beta2/binary-i386/lirc-pluto_0.1.1_all.deb  Size mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Did apt-get update and then run apt-get install pluto-lirc-wrapper and seems to be installing now!


I now have the following output

joe@dcerouter:~$ ps ax | grep LIRC
 7147 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -d -m -S mce_usb257 /usr/pluto/bin/Spawn_Device.sh 57 localhost LIRC_DCE
 7149 pts/17   Ss+    0:00 /bin/bash /usr/pluto/bin/Spawn_Device.sh 57 localhost LIRC_DCE
19474 pts/17   Sl+    0:00 /usr/pluto/bin/LIRC_DCE -d 57 -r localhost -l /var/log/pluto/57_LIRC_DCE.log
31283 pts/24   S+     0:00 grep --color=auto LIRC


However the remote does not work. I have not tried rebooting the machine yet as it is connected to the core and I am in middle of installing an MD.

Regards

[tschak909]

awesome, it's grabbing the wrong packages.

Let me see what we can do to solve it.

-Thom

[Murdock]

Very odd, I'm still working to get my MDs online, but this is output from my core (no apparant issues)

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dcerouter_1021129:~# apt-cache policy pluto-lirc-wrapper
pluto-lirc-wrapper:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.0.0.45.11092824858
  Version table:
     2.0.0.45.11092824858 0
        500 http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ lucid/beta2 Packages
dcerouter_1021129:~# apt-get install -y pluto-lirc-wrapper
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libftdi1 liblircclient-dev liblircclient0 lirc lirc-modules-source lirc-pluto pluto-irbase pluto-messagetrans setserial
Suggested packages:
  lirc-x kernel-source
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libftdi1 liblircclient-dev liblircclient0 lirc lirc-modules-source lirc-pluto pluto-irbase pluto-lirc-wrapper pluto-messagetrans setserial
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,636kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  liblircclient0 liblircclient-dev libftdi1 setserial lirc lirc-modules-source lirc-pluto pluto-irbase pluto-messagetrans pluto-lirc-wrapper
Authentication warning overridden.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main liblircclient0 0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2 [88.8kB]
Get:2 http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ lucid/beta2 lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2+lmce1 [692kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main liblircclient-dev 0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2 [91.6kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main libftdi1 0.17-1 [17.9kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main setserial 2.17-45.2 [52.4kB]
Get:6 http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ lucid/beta2 lirc-modules-source 0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2+lmce1 [479kB]
Get:7 http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ lucid/beta2 lirc-pluto 0.1.1 [1,936B]
Get:8 http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ lucid/beta2 pluto-irbase 2.0.0.45.11092824858 [61.4kB]
Get:9 http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ lucid/beta2 pluto-messagetrans 2.0.0.45.11092824858 [72.9kB]
Get:10 http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ lucid/beta2 pluto-lirc-wrapper 2.0.0.45.11092824858 [78.1kB]
Fetched 1,636kB in 5s (281kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.
Selecting previously deselected package liblircclient0.
(Reading database ... 153698 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking liblircclient0 (from .../liblircclient0_0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package liblircclient-dev.
Unpacking liblircclient-dev (from .../liblircclient-dev_0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libftdi1.
Unpacking libftdi1 (from .../libftdi1_0.17-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package setserial.
Unpacking setserial (from .../setserial_2.17-45.2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package lirc.
Unpacking lirc (from .../lirc_0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2+lmce1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package lirc-modules-source.
Unpacking lirc-modules-source (from .../lirc-modules-source_0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2+lmce1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package lirc-pluto.
Unpacking lirc-pluto (from .../lirc-pluto_0.1.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package pluto-irbase.
Unpacking pluto-irbase (from .../pluto-irbase_2.0.0.45.11092824858_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package pluto-messagetrans.
Unpacking pluto-messagetrans (from .../pluto-messagetrans_2.0.0.45.11092824858_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hal ...
Regenerating hal fdi cache ...
Setting up liblircclient0 (0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2) ...

Setting up liblircclient-dev (0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2) ...
Setting up libftdi1 (0.17-1) ...

Setting up setserial (2.17-45.2) ...
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.
removing the old setserial entry in the rcn.d directories
Update complete.
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.
Saving state of known serial devices... backing up /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf done.

Setting up lirc (0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2+lmce1) ...

Setting up lirc-modules-source (0.8.6-0ubuntu4.2+lmce1) ...
Loading new lirc-0.8.6 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.32-33-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-33-generic
Done.

lirc_dev.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_atiusb.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_bt829.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_ite8709.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_i2c.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_igorplugusb.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_imon.ko:
Running module version sanity check.

Error! Module version 0.6 for lirc_imon.ko
is not newer than what is already found in kernel 2.6.32-33-generic (0.6).
You may override by specifying --force.

lirc_it87.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_mceusb.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_ttusbir.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_sasem.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_serial.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_sir.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_streamzap.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_ene0100.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

lirc_wpc8769l.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod.....

DKMS: install Completed.

Setting up lirc-pluto (0.1.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Selecting previously deselected package pluto-lirc-wrapper.
(Reading database ... 155218 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pluto-lirc-wrapper (from .../pluto-lirc-wrapper_2.0.0.45.11092824858_i386.deb) ...
Setting up pluto-irbase (2.0.0.45.11092824858) ...

Setting up pluto-messagetrans (2.0.0.45.11092824858) ...

Setting up pluto-lirc-wrapper (2.0.0.45.11092824858) ...

dcerouter_1021129:~#



[fibres]

Ok. Anything else you need me to test let me know!!

[kyfalcon]

awesome, it's grabbing the wrong packages.

Let me see what we can do to solve it.

-Thom

Hey Thom,

What version of the LIRC package should be loaded? It doesn't look like any of my remotes are working in 10.04, including my core. I have been able to get pretty much everything elde working.

Thanks,
Kevin

[tschak909]

I had uploaded a version of 0.8.7 (which is present in lucid) to our ubuntu/ tree as a replacement deb, which has the required pronto patches.

-Thom