Bug 62838

Summary:	lirc pid file in wrong location
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jordan <xero>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) <lanius>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jordan 2004-09-04 11:18:22 UTC

* Starting lircd...
lircd 0.7.0pre7: can't open or create /var/lib/run/lircd.pid
lircd 0.7.0pre7: No such file or directory  

Most pid files are in /var/run and this is where I'd think this was meant to go, however because the lirc ebuild uses econf to configure --localstatedir is set to /var/lib accordingly and for some reason this makes lirc put its pid file in the wrong location. Simply adding --localstatedir=/var in the ebuild fixes this, although of course this means it's being passed localstatedir twice, despite that it seems to work fine..

Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-08 09:13:39 UTC

thanx for pointing that out, fixed