This problem also affects me. I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with MythTV, and I sometimes plug in a remote control USB. When it's not plugged in, LIRC spams the syslog. I tried to disable startup of lircd daemon but that didn't seem to work. sudo systemctl disable lircd.service sudo systemctl disable lircd.socket and this appeared to set the links in /etc/rc2.d to be "K*lircd (kill) ) but the glob spamming still occurred after the next reboot.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to lirc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768291 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/1768291/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs Post to : mythbuntu-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
