Bug 414307 – app-misc/lirc: uses keepdir /var/run/lirc, should use checkpath in /etc/init.d/lircd instead

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Malte Starostik 2012-05-01 22:48:09 UTC]

lircd won't start unless /var/run/lircd/ exists.  This can happen easily e.g. if /var/run/ is on tmpfs:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/lircd start
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                                                                                         [ ok ]
 * Starting lircd ...                                                                                                                       [ !! ]
 * ERROR: lircd failed to start
$ sudo lircd -n
lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid
lircd: No such file or directory

The ebuild uses keepdir on that dir, assuming it's persistent.  The init script should care for its existance instead.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Malte Starostik 2012-05-01 22:50:11 UTC]

Created attachment 310599 [details, diff]
migrate keepdir /var/run/lirc to checkpath

Fixes the issue.
Runtime checked on app-misc/lirc-0.8.7
Assumed correct for app-misc/lirc-0.9.0 as it's basically the same diff.

[Comment 2 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2012-07-17 18:44:40 UTC]

All the MCEUSB stuff is in-kernel as of 0.9.0 , so there's nothing in lirc to patch anymore.

If the kernel doesn't support this device then a bug should be submitted against the kernel, but I expect that it already does.

[Comment 3 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2012-07-17 18:47:05 UTC]

CRUD, wrong bug.  

Anyways, i've fixed this with lirc-0.9.0-r1 , which i'm committing to the tree in about 5 minutes.