mceusb remote stops working after lucid->precise upgrade

[Mario Limonciello]

I had a previously functioning mceusb remote with lucid. After the precise upgrade it stopped working.

It appears that this is caused by button names that changed with the upgrade. The /etc/lirc/lircd.conf sources the lircd.conf included with the package so these button names in the lircrc may not be consistent.

 If I re-run mythbuntu-lirc-generator after the upgrade, my media applications begin working again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lirc 0.9.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-16.25-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-16-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 17 02:10:52 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lirc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-17 (0 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.lirc.hardware.conf: 2009-10-13T09:51:29.209483
mtime.conffile..etc.lirc.lircd.conf: 2009-12-03T21:18:43.198785

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Unfortunately lircrc files are stored in a user's home directory. To at least cover a majority of the people who would hit this problem, it would be best to just re-run mythbuntu-lirc-generator as the user initiating the upgrade if that user has a .lirc directory (generated by mythbuntu-lirc-generator).

So does update-manager support a package providing a snippet to run, or does it need to be added directly to update manager code?

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Please don't mark bugs fix released without an associated fix/changelog entry.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

The root cause here seems to be that the lircd.conf file was updated together with lirc. From the new version 0.9.4 (zesty) the remote definitions are not longer part of the lirc package, so this just cannot happen. So, from a lirc perspective this bug is solved by the lirc-0.8.4c changelog.

That said, any lircd.conf sourcing files from the lirc package will be a problem when upgrading.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

Not the lirc-0.8.4c but lirc-0.9.4c changelog. Sorry

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

Setting Incomplete to let bug expire. Please change if you don't wan bug to expire-

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This change in the new lirc to drop hardware.conf is going to break a lot
of people that upgrade to zesty. That has been part of Ubuntu for a very
long time...

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016, 17:11 Alec Leamas <email address hidden> wrote:

> Setting Incomplete to let bug expire. Please change if you don't wan
> bug to expire-
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> ** Changed in: lirc (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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