<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:09 AM Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
As installed on a new 20.04 system, the lirc package does not install<br>
an /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf file. This makes lircd crash when it<br>
is started as part of the package install. The workaround is to copy<br>
the package's /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf.dist file to<br>
/etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf after the install fails, and then remove<br>
and reinstall the lirc package. Then the install should complete<br>
without crashing. There is a fix in testing for this, which should<br>
come through as an updated package soon. However, there may be other<br>
problems with the lirc package - the 18.04 lirc package was also<br>
missing a lib file for lirc-setup so it could not be run, and there<br>
were some other problems. Unless those have been fixed in the<br>
interim, they could still be there. I would recommend doing these<br>
commands to make sure the other (unconfigured) services that are<br>
installed by the lirc package are shut down and disabled:<br>
<br>
sudo systemctl stop lircmd<br>
sudo systemctl stop lirc-uinput<br>
sudo systemctl stop irexec<br>
sudo systemctl disable lircmd<br>
sudo systemctl disable lirc-uinput<br>
sudo systemctl disable irexec<br>
<br>
If you need a working config for an MCE remote, that is what I use on<br>
18.04 and the config in 20.04 does not seem to have changed, so I<br>
could put mine on my web server for you. In 18.04, lircd itself was<br>
fully functional as installed by the package, and if that is also the<br>
same in 20.04, manually installing a config should make it work.<br>
<br>
The fix script I did for 18.04 is not likely to work for 20.04,<br>
unfortunately, as it downloads the lirc source package and compiles<br>
it. If you wanted to try it, you would have to change all the<br>
references to 18.04 to 20.04, and then it might work. I have only got<br>
20.04 on a virtual machine at the moment, so it does not have any way<br>
to run an IR remote for me to test with. I am intending to update my<br>
script as soon as I upgrade my laptop to 20.04, but that will not<br>
happen until 20.04.1 is available (June?) so that I can do an LTS to<br>
LTS upgrade.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>First, thanks for the help. This system I'm playing with is a development system that I'm using to learn how stable 20.04 is at this point. It has a lot of issues that need to be fixed. So I'm not concerned if I have to blow everything away and reinstall.</div><div><br></div><div>At this point I modified your 18.04 script to use lirc 10.1 instead of 10.0. So the script is doing something. </div><div><br></div><div>I just did your sequence of systemctl commands and moved my IR receiver to another port and now it's visible with lsusb. </div><div><br></div><div>So I have mythfrontend using the MCE remote, but I'm missing functions. Right now only the direction arrows are working. No "select/enter" and no stop or pause or play.</div><div><br></div><div>It maybe all I need is a configuration file for my model 1039 MCE remote???</div><div><br></div><div>Jim A</div><div><br></div></div></div>