[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#860296: lirc is spamming syslog with messages

[Paul Menzel]

Version: 0.9.4c-9


Dear Debian folks,


Am Freitag, den 14.04.2017, 10:15 +0200 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich:

> System is an EEEPC 1005HAG, debian/testing, i386

I am using Debian Sid/unstable.

> Sadly I have to tell, the latest version of lirc is spamming syslog
> with mwessages. To make sure, it is not a problem of an earlier
> configuration, I deinstalled it completely and reinstalled it new.
> 
> The message, which is spamming is the following:
> 
> Apr 11 20:28:22 localhost lircd-0.9.4c[8159]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
> Apr 11 20:28:23 localhost lircd[8159]: lircd-0.9.4c[8159]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
> Apr 11 20:28:23 localhost lircd-0.9.4c[8159]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
> Apr 11 20:28:24 localhost lircd[8159]: lircd-0.9.4c[8159]: Error: Cannot glob /sys/class/rc/rc0/input[0-9]*/event[0-9]*
> 
> and so on.

`journalctl -a -f` also shows the constant message flow.

There is no such directory `/sys/class/rc` here, when no remote control
receiver is installed.

```
$ LANG=C ls -l /sys/class/ | grep rc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 14 11:56 powercap
```

> Note: Although I have no infrared hardware installed, this issue did
> not happen with earlier versions.
> As a workaround, I had to deinstall the package for now.
> 
> It would be nice, if you could take an eye on it.

That’d would be awesome indeed.


Kind regards,

Paul
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