Re: problem with lirc over network under Ubuntu 18.04

On 28/12/18 20:16, Richard Bown wrote:
> Hi
> Good luck with this Andre
> I asked the same question months ago and never got an answer.
> But if you search on other lists you will find the recommended action
> is to temporary add the repo for 16.04 and force the reload of the
> previous version of lirc , then put a apt hold on lirc so it does not
> get upgraded back to the broken version. Its on the ubuntu forums, and
> quite a few others as well, unfortunately a well known problem.https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/178823

lirc being broken was finally raised as a bug in [1]. As evident from
the bug the statement "lirc is broken" is plain wrong.

However, some users have had problems doing a correct upgrade. The
upgrade requires manual steps as described in
/usr/share/doc/lirc/README.Debian.gz.

As a starter, have you made the upgrade as described herein?

Cheers!
--alec

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/1788235