There definitely seems to be something amiss here. Bug #480555 has a brute force work-around (he added the following code to /etc/rc.local before final exit 0):
if [ ! -d /var/run/lirc ]; then
sudo mkdir /var/run/lirc
sudo ln -s /dev/lircd /var/run/lirc/lircd
fi
There definitely seems to be something amiss here. Bug #480555 has a brute force work-around (he added the following code to /etc/rc.local before final exit 0):
if [ ! -d /var/run/lirc ]; then
sudo mkdir /var/run/lirc
sudo ln -s /dev/lircd /var/run/lirc/lircd
fi