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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: lirc (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  lirc fails to install because of a missing /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
  - Ubuntu 20.04

Status in lirc package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hello,

  I have tried to install lirc on a fresh Kubuntu 20.04 Release
  Candidate installation on a AMD Athlon X2 system. The installation
  failed, with a half installed lirc package. This is leaving apt-get /
  apt in a state, that makes it impossible to install other packages or
  updates anymore, as it first tries to finish the lirc installation.
  This is leaving the system in a state, where further software changes
  or the usage of lirc are not possible.

  After using Google to find a solution for the problem, I found this bug report about lirc on Debian bugs website:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=932779

  The suggested workaround is to creating the file lirc_options.conf and to continue the failed installation (which worked on my system) via:
  sudo cp /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf.dist /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
  sudo apt-get install lirc
  This worked on my installation brought the system back into a state, where further software installations or updates via apt-get / apt work again.

  Ubuntu version: 
  user1@AthlonX2:lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  Release:        20.04


  package information: 
  user1@AthlonX2:/etc/lirc$ apt-cache policy lirc
  lirc:
    Installiert:           0.10.1-6.1
    Installationskandidat: 0.10.1-6.1
    Versionstabelle:
   *** 0.10.1-6.1 500
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


  Terminal output during the failing installation via apt-get install:

  user1@AthlonX2:/etc/lirc$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install lirc
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following additional packages will be installed:
    libftdi1-2 liblirc0
  Suggested packages:
    lirc-compat-remotes lirc-drv-irman lirc-doc lirc-x setserial ir-keytable
  Recommended packages:
    gir1.2-vte
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libftdi1-2 liblirc0 lirc
  0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/571 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 2897 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  Selecting previously unselected package libftdi1-2:amd64.
  (Reading database ... 360984 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../libftdi1-2_1.4-2build2_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking libftdi1-2:amd64 (1.4-2build2) ...
  Selecting previously unselected package liblirc0:amd64.
  Preparing to unpack .../liblirc0_0.10.1-6.1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking liblirc0:amd64 (0.10.1-6.1) ...
  Selecting previously unselected package lirc.
  Preparing to unpack .../lirc_0.10.1-6.1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking lirc (0.10.1-6.1) ...
  Setting up liblirc0:amd64 (0.10.1-6.1) ...
  Setting up libftdi1-2:amd64 (1.4-2build2) ...
  Setting up lirc (0.10.1-6.1) ...
  Job for lircd.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered causing the control process to dump core.
  See "systemctl status lircd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
  invoke-rc.d: initscript lircd, action "start" failed.
  * lircd.service - Flexible IR remote input/output application support
       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lircd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
       Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Tue 2020-04-21 20:05:34 CEST; 16ms ago
  TriggeredBy: * lircd.socket
         Docs: man:lircd(8)
               http://lirc.org/html/configure.html
      Process: 12249 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lircd --nodaemon (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
     Main PID: 12249 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)

  Apr 21 20:05:33 Madlen-Zimmer systemd[1]: Starting Flexible IR remote input/output application support...
  Apr 21 20:05:33 Madlen-Zimmer lircd[12249]: Warning: cannot open /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
  Apr 21 20:05:33 Madlen-Zimmer lircd-0.10.1[12249]: Info: lircd:  Opening log, level: Info
  Apr 21 20:05:33 Madlen-Zimmer lircd-0.10.1[12249]: Notice: Version: lircd 0.10.1
  Apr 21 20:05:33 Madlen-Zimmer lircd-0.10.1[12249]: Notice: System info: Linux Madlen-Zimmer 5.4.0-25-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 15:06:57 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  Apr 21 20:05:34 Madlen-Zimmer systemd[1]: lircd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
  Apr 21 20:05:34 Madlen-Zimmer systemd[1]: lircd.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
  Apr 21 20:05:34 Madlen-Zimmer systemd[1]: Failed to start Flexible IR remote input/output application support.
  dpkg: error processing package lirc (--configure):
   installed lirc package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
  Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9) ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   lirc
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  user1@AthlonX2:/etc/lirc$ 


  Terminal output during copying the file and inishing the installation:

  user1@AthlonX2:/etc/lirc$ sudo cp /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf.backup1 /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
  user1@AthlonX2:/etc/lirc$ sudo apt-get install lirc
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  lirc is already the newest version (0.10.1-6.1).
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  Setting up lirc (0.10.1-6.1) ...
  Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lircd.service -> /lib/systemd/system/lircd.service.
  Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/lircd.socket -> /lib/systemd/system/lircd.socket.
  user1@AthlonX2:/etc/lirc$ 

  
  Greetings
  Henry

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