problems with LIRC on ubuntu 18,04 arm64

[Richard B. <ri...@g8...>]

Hi
I hope someone on this list can help, I've been using LIRC without
problems on my Hardkernel Odroid C2 SBC with ubuntu16.04
But the move to ubuntu18.04, which changed the directory structure and
functionality, now it just wont start.
Whereas before lircd could be started with "sudo service start lircd",
that now results in not being able to write to files in /var
So it looks as if the use of service has been fully replaced by
systemctl., verified on other applications that can no longer write to
/var

starting lircd with "sudo systemctl start lircd"   does allow writing
to /var
but

"sudo systemctl status lircd" shows this:-
odroid@odroid:~$ sudo systemctl start lircd
odroid@odroid:~$ sudo systemctl status lircd
● lircd.service - Flexible IR remote input/output application support
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lircd.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: signal) since Tue 2018-09-11 10:38:07 UTC;
14s ago
     Docs: man:lircd(8)
           http://lirc.org/html/configure.html
  Process: 3858 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lircd --nodaemon (code=killed,
signal=SEGV)
 Main PID: 3858 (code=killed, signal=SEGV)

Sep 11 10:38:07 odroid systemd[1]: Started Flexible IR remote\
input/output application support.
Sep 11 10:38:07 odroid lircd[3858]: ciniparser: input line too long in\
/etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf (30)
Sep 11 10:38:07 odroid lircd-0.10.0[3858]: Info: lircd:  Opening log,\
level: Info
Sep 11 10:38:07 odroid lircd-0.10.0[3858]: Notice: Version: lircd\
0.10.0
Sep 11 10:38:07 odroid lircd-0.10.0[3858]: Notice: System info: Linux\
odroid 3.16.57-25 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 30 19:27:38 -03 2018 aarch64\
aarch6
Sep 11 10:38:07 odroid systemd[1]: lircd.service: Main process exited,\
code=killed, status=11/SEGV
Sep 11 10:38:07 odroid systemd[1]: lircd.service: Failed with result\
'signal'.

Sorry about the line wrapping

Ciniparser complains about the last line in the lirc_options.conf file
even if you put a hash at the start of the line !

lirc_options.conf  file :-

[lircd]
nodaemon        = False
driver          = default
device          = /dev/lirc0
output          = /var/run/lirc/lircd
pidfile         = /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid
plugindir       = /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/lirc/plugins
permission      = 666
allow-simulate  = No
repeat-max      = 600
#effective-user =
#listen         = [address:]port
#connect        = host[:port]
#loglevel       = 6
#release        = true
#release_suffix = _EVUP
#logfile        = ...
#driver-options = ...
 
[lircmd]
uinput          = False
nodaemon        = False
 
[modinit]
code = /sbin/modprobe meson-ir
 
[lircd-uinput]
add-release-events = True
release-timeout    = 50
release-suffix     = _EVUP

The modules do load OK.

I suspect all the hard work you guys put is , has been undone by
ubuntu18.04.
Any help greatly appreciated
-- 
 Best wishes /73 
 Richard Bown
 
 Email : ri...@g8...

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