Control Centre freezes on hauppauge nova-t-500 remote

Binary package hint: mythbuntu-control-centre

The control centre will produce this backtrace:

supermario@portablemario:~$ sudo /usr/share/mythbuntu-control-centre/bin/mythbuntu-control-centre
[sudo] password for supermario:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Moving /etc/lirc/lircd.conf to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.mythbuntu-old
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/core.py", line 1061, in apply_pressed
    call_applicator(self,to_install,to_remove,to_reconfigure)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/core.py", line 1048, in call_applicator
    apply.commit_changes()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/changer.py", line 225, in commit_changes
    self.process_configuration()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/changer.py", line 430, in process_configuration
    self.create_lircd_conf(lircd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/changer.py", line 550, in create_lircd_conf
    shutil.copy('/usr/share/lirc/remotes/' + lircd, '/etc/lirc/lircd.conf')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shutil.py", line 80, in copy
    copyfile(src, dst)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shutil.py", line 46, in copyfile
    fsrc = open(src, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/lirc/remotes/hw_devinput'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/mythbuntu-control-centre/bin/mythbuntu-control-centre", line 47, in <module>
    script.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/core.py", line 186, in run
    gtk.main()
KeyboardInterrupt