<div dir="ltr">OK, gave that command a try and it doesn't look good.<div><br></div><div><div>allen@MythNew:/etc$ sudo systemctl disable lirc</div><div>[sudo] password for allen:</div><div>lirc.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install</div><div>Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable lirc</div><div>insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `lirc' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).</div><div>insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `lirc' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).</div><div>allen@MythNew:/etc$</div><div><br></div><div>I have no idea what all this means. I took out the killall lircd statement and tested the remote. It did not work.</div><div><br></div><div>I put the killall back in rc.local and still no remote</div><div><br></div><div>I issued the other command you gave
<span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">sudo systemctl start lirc and still no remote</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Also, irw is no longer recognized so I now have no remote at all. My wife will be very unhappy.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Pleas help me get back to where I was. I will never complain about my kludge again.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:22:58 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<br>
lirc in 16.04 is a quite old version (0.9.0). The version in 18.04 is<br>
0.10.0, and its Python configuration tools are badly broken - clearly<br>
no one ever tested them. They can not find their libraries and crash<br>
when run. I believe lircd itself is fine, and if the config files can<br>
be manually created it will work. And it is rather more capable than<br>
0.9.0. But I have not actually verified that as I have not upgraded<br>
any of my running systems to 18.04.1 yet.<br>
<br>
So your choice of 16.04 is fortuitous - you need a working lirc, and<br>
18.04 does not have one yet.<br>
<span class=""><br>
>Everything works but I am still not happy killing lircd before starting it<br>
>myself.<br>
><br>
>1) I am surprised that entering the correct UDP ports in frontend setup<br>
>didn't work.<br>
><br>
>2) Assuming I still need to use rc.local, which I have no problem with as<br>
>it works, I want to disable whatever else is starting lircd. Perhaps it is<br>
>this file:<br>
><br>
>Would /etc/lirc/hardward.conf be the file to edit?<br>
><br>
>#Enable lircd<br>
>START_LIRCD="true"<br>
><br>
>#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file<br>
>#START_LIRCMD="false"<br>
><br>
>Allen<br>
<br>
</span>No, not in 16.04. 16.04 uses systemd to control and start things. So<br>
to disable lircd from starting at boot, you need to do this:<br>
<br>
sudo systemctl disable lirc<br>
<br>
When you want to start lircd later, the command is:<br>
<br>
sudo systemctl start lirc<br>
<br>
You do not need the sudo from rc.local.<br>
<br>
With systemd, using rc.local is regarded as the wrong way of doing<br>
things, but there is a very steep learning curve with systemd to work<br>
out the right way of doing things, and rc.local does still work.<br>
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