Ubuntu
lirc package

lirc configuration not loaded after a reboot

Bug #61132 reported by reggaemanu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lirc (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Kees Cook

Bug Description

With lirc in edgy i have to dpkg-reconfigure the package every time i reboot my machine although the configuration is fine. If i don't dpkg-reconfigure it, the irxevent and irexec clients cannot connect to the lirc daemon. (if i remember right, there is the same problem on dapper, and maybe on breezy)

Also...a while ago, on hoary, a dpkg-reconfigure lirc ran an ncurse configuration dialog for choosing the right module, now since (breezy or dapper) we have to edit manually the conf files after searching over the net for some howto, that's not user-friendly at all like it was before.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

are you sure just restarting the lirc-daemon doesn't help? At least when vdr connects to lircd the daemos quits when it can't find /dev/lirc. Check the syslog for any messages from lircd.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

reggaemanu: ping? could you answer my questions :)

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reggaemanu (reggaemanu) wrote :

Oops, sorry i forgotten this bugreport...

So, thanks to pointing me to the sysylog, it's how you said...in fact the DEVICE="" parameter in hardware.conf wasn't set correctly to /dev/ttyS0 and the daemon quits.
But why dpkg-reconfigure is able to find the correct device and restarting the daemon don't find it ?

Anyway, it was my bad, so i apologize for that, but the configuration tool that used to be in the package before could/ should avoid problems like that, it was really much easier to configure lirc (i'm not the only one who have this restart problem or others configuration problems since this tool is no more available)

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

ok, do you remember which version had it?

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reggaemanu (reggaemanu) wrote :

I don't know the exact version, if I remember right it was removed in breezy. anyway, it was in hoary for sure.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

dpkg-reconfigure lirc does all kinds of things, like restarts the daemon. I don't have DEVICE set at all, and everything still works...

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

Sounds like this was fixed? Closing for now...

Changed in lirc:
assignee: nobody → keescook
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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