package lirc 0.8.7-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Morgan Evans]

Binary package hint: lirc

it wouldn't install from the update manager. Doesn't your software automatically record details of things like that?

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: lirc 0.8.7-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.38-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 25 09:25:35 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110318)
SourcePackage: lirc
Title: package lirc 0.8.7-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-25 (0 days ago)

[Todd Bradshaw (snooptodd)]

I may also have caught this bug.
Distupgrage failed so I tried the following:

family@family:~$ sudo dpkg --configure --debug=2 lirc
Setting up lirc (0.8.7-0ubuntu4) ...
D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/lirc.postinst ( configure 0.8.7~pre3-0ubuntu1 )
dpkg: error processing lirc (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
 lirc
family@family:~$ sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/lirc.postinst
 * Loading LIRC modules [ OK ]
 * Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC [ OK ]

As you can see running the post install script from the term completes with out error.

this was the 4'th box i had upgraded and the only one to have a problem (with lirc).

should i create another bug report?

[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.]