This breaks on a fresh install of vivid.
Hal is no longer available on vivid, so the program does not work.
So no GUI to configure my IR receiver.
$ gnome-lirc-properties
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-lirc-properties", line 31, in <module>
gnome_lirc_properties.run(sys.argv[1:], datadir)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gnome_lirc_properties/__init__.py", line
59, in run
return ui.RemoteControlProperties(builder, datadir).run()
File
"/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gnome_lirc_properties/ui/RemoteControlProperties.py",
line 53, in __init__
self.__setup_models()
File
"/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gnome_lirc_properties/ui/RemoteControlProperties.py",
line 80, in __setup_models
self.__hardware_manager = hardware.HardwareManager(receivers_db)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gnome_lirc_properties/hardware.py", line
255, in __init__
self.__hal = self.__bus.get_object(HAL_SERVICE, HAL_MANAGER_PATH)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object
follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 248, in __init__
self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in
activate_name_owner
self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in
start_service_by_name
'su', (bus_name, flags)))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in
call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The
name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
$ sudo apt-get install hal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package hal is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'hal' has no installation candidate
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Should depend on hal
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