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[KyL416 <1768291@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Same as what Chris mentioned. I occasionally use a Hauppauge 950Q USB
device that has IR support on my laptop, but I don't keep it plugged in
24/7 since I frequently travel with this laptop. I don't want to mess
around with scripts and disable services, so right now my "workaround"
is to only install lirc when I want to use it, and uninstall it when I
don't need it.

The maintainer seems to assume that all IR devices are built in and
connected 24/7 since he thinks the only a bad dependency can result in
lirc being installed without an IR device connected so he sees nothing
wrong with the syslog being spammed with messages about it.

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Title:
  lirc is flooding the syslog with two lines each second

Status in lirc package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hello,

  in the syslog every second two lines are written:

  May  1 18:05:19 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:19 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:20 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:20 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:21 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:21 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:22 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:22 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:23 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:23 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:24 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:24 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:25 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:25 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:26 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:26 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:27 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:27 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:28 flupp lircd[1323]: lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
  May  1 18:05:28 flupp lircd-0.10.0[1323]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*

  This is not only annoying as it makes it difficult to use the syslog
  for checking the system, but also it writes too much data into the log
  (18MB each day). Also it keeps the hard disc awaken what is bad for
  standby.

  Kubuntu 18.04
  ii  liblirc-client0:amd64 0.10.0-2     amd64        infra-red remote control support - client library
  ii  liblirc0:amd64        0.10.0-2     amd64        Infra-red remote control support - Run-time libraries
  ii  lirc                  0.10.0-2     amd64        Infra-red remote control support - daemons and utils

  I do not have infrared remote control hardware. But I cannot purge the
  packages as other packages I want to keep would be removed as well.
  Deactivating the services in systemd does not help (or I am doing
  something wrong?)

  Greetings
  Gert

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