In lirc 0.9.4, lircd-uinput.service fails to start because the lircd-uinput executable is not installed

[Michael Marley]

The title says it all.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

Hm... when I list the contents of the lirc package, I see can see it in place:

 $ dpkg -L lirc | grep lircd-uinput | grep bin
 /usr/sbin/lircd-uinput
 $

So, this looks strange. Thoughts?

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

Sorry, my bad. The file list for zesty does indeed not include lircd-uinput. Stay tuned

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

I have rebuilt the source package 0.9.4c-3 on an updated zesty host, and it builds and installs /usr/sbin/lircd-uinput as expected.

This bug is possibly related to bug #1636353.

The cause can be found in the build log at https://launchpadlibrarian.net/290954740/buildlog_ubuntu-zesty-amd64.lirc_0.9.4c-3_BUILDING.txt.gz which contains "HAVE_UINPUT:no". This eventually boils down to at least some of the ubuntu build hosts doesn't have a /dev/uinput device which causes the build script to configure lirc without uinput support (and thus without lircd-uinput).

Seems that the ubuntu kernels are heavily patched...

A patch will be in place for next update, coming Real Soon (tm). Thanks for reporting!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lirc - 0.9.4c-4

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lirc (0.9.4c-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Team upload.
  * Upload to unstable.
  * Resolves (new bugs) LP: #1636355, LP: #1636353
  * Resolves (old bugs) LP: #1497266, LP: #1565070, LP: #1395570,
    LP: #1393056, LP: #1310508, LP: #1203483, LP: #1438381,

 -- Alec Leamas <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:46:34 +0200