[mythtv-users] lircd unreliable after Ubuntu upgrade 16.04 > 18.04

[John Burroughs]

Stephen:

Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:25:21 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 19:20:13 -0700, you wrote:
>>>
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>>
>>> Looks like that was my fault.  I must have used my Windows editor to
>>> update the changelog in the file and forgot to tell it to save it with
>>> Unix line endings.  I have fixed it now.
>>
>>I just updated all machines to Mythtv v31 and a new frontend with 20.04
>>installed. As far as you know will your script still work as the 18.04
>>version? Ubuntu is giving a message that the lirc package is not setup
>>correctly.
>>
>>Thanks for any input.
>>
>>John
>
> My script is 18.04 specific, and I have not tested it on 20.04.  I do
> not know what, if any, problems lirc in 20.04 has.  I did try 20.04 in
> VirtualBox when it was released, and found a showstopper bug in lirc,
> but it had an easy workaround and I filed a bug report.  That bug was
> supposed to have been fixed (I got notifications), but I never had the
> time to check and see due to real life getting in the way.
>
> I think the chances that all of my script is still needed are small.
> The problems with lirc in 18.04 were never with lirc itself - if you
> manually configured it properly, it would work.  The problems were
> with the 18.04 package, which did not install all the needed library
> files for the Python configuration tools, and did not install valid
> configurations.  My impression was that the package install had only
> been tested on a machine where the package had been developed, and
> hence the problems with the package were masked by the presence of the
> source code and the results of compiling that.
>
> So, what is the message that you are now encountering?  If it is
> something that was also in 18.04, I should be able to point you to the
> bits of my script that would, with appropriate changes, fix it.

The messages I am getting are as follows when I run your script:

---------------------------------------------------------------
All prerequites are now in place, attempting to install the lirc Python 3 support...
WARNING: Requirement '/usr/share/lirc/lirc-0.10.0.tar.gz' looks like a filename, but the file does not exist
Processing /usr/share/lirc/lirc-0.10.0.tar.gz
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/lirc/lirc-0.10.0.tar.gz'

Exited - doing final cleanup
-------------------------------------------------------------

When I look in /usr/share/lirc, what I see is "lirc-0.10.1.tar.gz".

I am guessing there is a new version and the name needs only to be
changed, I hope. I did take a look at your script, but I was not 100%
sure where that change needed to be made.

I am hoping this is the only change that is needed.

ubuntu 20.04 wants to install lirc-0.10.1-6.ubuntu1.1

Thanks for your help.

John
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