cec.init() fails to open with garbage error message.

[TomCarlosCumming]

On a raspberry pi zero, I get the following error on open. Python-cec was installed using the README.md 0.2.5 recipe (wget... to pip install cec).

cec-client works fine on same pi, tv, etc.

pi@raspberrypi:/tmp $ python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Sep 17 2016, 20:26:04)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import cec
cec.init()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
IOError: CEC failed to open P
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[TomCarlosCumming]

More info if this helps:

libCEC version: 3.0.1, compiled on Fri Jul 3 19:20:43 UTC 2015 by [email protected] on Linux 3.16.0-41-generic (armv7l), features: P8_USB, P8_detect, 'RPi'
*** Error in `cec-client': corrupted double-linked list: 0x0195c540 ***

[TomCarlosCumming]

Forgot to mention the segfault...

Python 2.7.9 (default, Sep 17 2016, 20:26:04)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import cec
cec.list_adapters()
['RPI']
cec.init()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
IOError: CEC failed to open P�Ҿ�����!�������
cec.list_adapters()
Segmentation fault

[digisuji]

tcumming123, I get the same error...did u get to figure out what was wrong?

Thanks.

[Kiboneu]

I had a similar problem, though instead of garbage I got a straight segfault on 'log_cb' when running 'cec.init()' (python 3.6, libcec 4.0.2, cec 0.2.6).

I didn't really bother finding the root cause, but I found that building from the repo and replacing 'cec.so' from pip with the git-built version (5a2a6c8) resolved the issue for me.