Remote not working since yesterday's upgrade

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After the patch, it does now pick up the correct device, and irw shows the expected key presses.

However, even after a reboot, I still need to manually restart the xbmc service for most of the remote keys to be picked up. Restarting just lircd didn't seem to help. Could lircd be starting to late for xbmc to use on the initial boot? Can anyone suggest where to look next?

In the short term I still have a work-around that passes the WAF test