[Bug 567433] Re: Should depend on hal

2015-10-17 Thread robertjlee
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

[Bug 635258] Re: Garbled chars in xterm

2010-10-13 Thread robertjlee
I get the same problem with emacs, so it looks like this affects any application using bitmap fonts. From the look of it, single characters are more affected than large areas (even on normal repaints where nothing has changed, eg switching desktops), so my guess would be that something isn't

[Bug 382558] Re: package dovecot-common None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/dovecot-common.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2

2010-10-13 Thread robertjlee
It looks like dpkg --configure is broken for dovecot-common; I've been using this successfully for some time, but after an update it fails to start up saying that I already have ssl certificates (which I do; I've been using it quite happily). The package seems to be installed okay; it works

[Bug 382558] Re: package dovecot-common None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/dovecot-common.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2

2010-10-13 Thread robertjlee
Also, apt-get clean/update didn't fix anything for me; the next upgrade caused exactly the same message from dovecot-common (on Hardy Herron) -- package dovecot-common None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/dovecot-common.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error