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Bug 144522

Summary: net-wireless/irda-utils refers to /etc/init.d/serial
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Nik Raub <niknik79>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Other   
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Description Nik Raub 2006-08-20 06:48:15 UTC
The file /etc/init.d/irda provided by net-wireless/irda-utils-0.9.16-r1 (current stable version) contains the statement 

depend() {
	use serial
}

referring to /etc/init.d/serial that, to the extent of my knowledge, is long gone from baselayout. In any case, the irda service only works on my machine if I comment this statement out.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-20 06:53:14 UTC
Err, it's still provided by sys-apps/setserial ebuild for people that need it. Anyway, I don't see why it should fail because of this, it doesn't depend on it, just tells to start after serial has started if it's available in that runlevel.

Reopen with emerge --info.
Comment 2 Nik Raub 2006-08-20 07:10:20 UTC
I think my problem was due to the fact that i still had an old and broken /etc/init.d/serial lying around. I deleted it and now everything works fine. Sorry about the premature bugreport.
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-20 07:13:28 UTC
OK, thanks for reporting back.