[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#860300: lircmd does not work

[Bernd Schumacher]

Package: lirc
Version: 0.9.4c-9
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I want to use lircmd 
After making sure that lirc works to control vdr and kodi, I configured lircmd in /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
[lircmd]
uinput          = True
nodaemon        = False

After starting "systemctl start lircmd", lircmd started without option "--uinput". 
Because I was not able to control my X11 mouse pointer, I tried to add this option.
No matter if I tried on commandline by calling "/usr/sbin/lircmd --uinput", 
or by changing /lib/systemd/system/lircmd.service the following error was shown:
Apr 14 11:03:38 majestix lircd-0.9.4c[23887]: "lircmd.cpp":394: Bad file descriptor
Apr 14 11:03:38 majestix lircd-0.9.4c[23887]: "lircmd.cpp":394: Bad file descriptor
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lirc depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.47
ii  libasound2           1.1.3-5
ii  libc6                2.24-9
ii  libftdi1-2           1.3-2+b2
ii  libgcc1              1:6.3.0-12
ii  liblirc-client0      0.9.4c-9
ii  liblirc0             0.9.4c-9
ii  libportaudio2        19.6.0-1
ii  libstdc++6           6.3.0-12
ii  libsystemd0          232-22
ii  libudev1             232-22
ii  libusb-0.1-4         2:0.1.12-30
ii  libusb-1.0-0         2:1.0.21-1
ii  lsb-base             9.20161125
ii  python3              3.5.3-1

Versions of packages lirc recommends:
pn  gir1.2-vte    <none>
ii  python3-gi    3.22.0-2
ii  python3-yaml  3.12-1

Versions of packages lirc suggests:
ii  ir-keytable          1.12.3-1
ii  lirc-compat-remotes  0.9.0-1
pn  lirc-doc             <none>
pn  lirc-drv-irman       <none>
pn  lirc-x               <none>
ii  setserial            2.17-50

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/devinput.lircd.conf [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: '/etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/devinput.lircd.conf'

-- no debconf information