Bug 25335

Summary:	lircd can't start on 64 bit system due to the wrong path for the plugin-dir /usr/lib/lirc/plugins i.s.o. /usr/lib64/lirc/plugins
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Rob Teng <r.teng>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	anssi.hannula, geiger.david68210, jani.valimaa, pterjan
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lirc.0.10.1-7.mga7	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Rob Teng 2019-08-20 22:00:25 CEST

Description of problem:
Upgrade to Mageia 7 (from 6) - lirc / remote control functionality broke

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lirc.0.10.1-7.mga7

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
Use system with lirc remote control
2.
Find that 
systemctl status lircd
gives this:
Aug 20 21:32:03 zurich lircd-0.10.1[27956]: Info: Cannot open plugindir /usr/lib/lirc/plugins
Aug 20 21:32:03 zurich lircd[27956]: Driver `default' not found or not loadable (wrong or missing -U/--plugindir?).
Aug 20 21:32:03 zurich lircd[27956]: Available drivers:
Aug 20 21:32:03 zurich lircd-0.10.1[27956]: Info: Cannot open plugindir /usr/lib/lirc/plugins

3.
Make link from /usr/lib/lirc/plugins to /usr/lib64/lirc/plugins

cd /usr/lib/lirc/
ln -s /usr/lib64/lirc/plugins .

then
systemctl restart lircd

and find that it works.

systemctl status lircd 
* lircd.service - Flexible IR remote input/output application support
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lircd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-08-20 21:58:56 CEST; 2s ago

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-08-21 21:56:43 CEST

Thank you Rob for your helpful report.
Assigning globally in the absence of a specific maintainer; CC'ing some people who have dealt with this package before.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
CC: (none) => anssi.hannula, geiger.david68210, pterjan

Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2019-08-22 08:12:49 CEST

Please check /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf. It should have:

plugindir       = /usr/lib64/lirc/plugins

Config files under /etc/lirc/ are tagged as %config(noreplace) so if you have made some modifications in the past they will be kept on pkg update and new config files shipped with lirc are named with .rpmnew extension. So also check if there are .rpmnew files in /etc/lirc/.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 3 Jani Välimaa 2019-08-22 08:18:50 CEST

x86_64 mga6's lirc_options.conf:
plugindir	= /usr/lib/lirc/plugins

x86_64 mga7's lirc_options.conf:
plugindir	= /usr/lib64/lirc/plugins

It looks like that plugindir was 'libified' in mga7 dev cycle.

Comment 4 Rob Teng 2019-08-25 22:45:36 CEST

Sorry guys, I indeed confirm, the file lirc_options.conf.rpmnew from Feb 16 2019 indeed has the new lib64 path.

Comment 5 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-07-06 13:14:11 CEST

Mageia 7 is EOL since July 1st 2021.
There will not have any further bugfix for this release.

You are encouraged to upgrade to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.

@reporter, if this bug still apply with Mageia 8, please let us know it.

@packager, if you work on the Mageia 7 version of your package, please check the Mageia 8 package if issue is also present. In this case, please fix the Mageia 8 version instead.

This bug report will be closed OLD if there is no further notice within 1st September 2021.

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2021-09-07 14:09:57 CEST

Hi bug reporter and hi assignee and others involved,

Please reopen this bug report if it is still valid for Mageia 8 or 9(cauldron), and change "Version:" in the upper left of this report accordingly.

This report is being closed as OLD because it was filed against Mageia 7, for which  support ended on June 30th 2021.

Thanks,
Marja

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED