package lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:

[wladimyr]

Binary package hint: lirc

It is happened when I upgraded my 9.10 ubuntu amd64 system. What to do?

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 23 13:17:44 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: lirc
Title: package lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Howdy, and thank you for helping to improve Mythbuntu by opening this ticket. I am marking this ticket as confirmed because it appears to have enough information to help the developers understand the problem. It is possible I am wrong and another more experienced triager or developer may adjust the status of the ticket to "incomplete" and request additional information.

The error in the Apttermlog is:

Setting up lirc (0.8.6-0ubuntu2) ...

Configuration file `/etc/lirc/hardware.conf'
 ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
   What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
    Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O : keep your currently-installed version
      D : show the differences between the versions
      Z : background this process to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** hardware.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file /etc/lirc/hardware.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/lirc ...
reload: Unknown job: udev
invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing lirc (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I assume this is an unrelated error in the Aptlog:
ERROR:root:NvidiaDetection returned a error: datadir './modaliases/' not found

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, can you please try again with the latest lirc from zesty (a.k.a. upcoming 17.04 version), and set the status back to "new" in case you still experience such issue?
You can also try it from my ppa, where I backported it to xenial and yakkety releases (16.04 and 16.10)
https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/costamagnagianfranco-ppa

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for lirc (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]