Thanks Daniel, I'll check this one out.
Peter

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 659438 ***
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/659438
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
> duplicate of bug #659438, so it is being marked as such. Please look at
> the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you
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> Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in
> the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may
> find.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 659438
>   Installation/Removal fails because of package which could not be located
> (failure in apt.Cache.required_download)
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779493
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> Title:
>  <type 'exceptions.SystemError'>: E:I wasn't able to locate file for
>  the eeepc-powersave package. This might mean you need to manually fix
>  this package.
>
> Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: aptdaemon
>
>  I'm running 11.04 on an asus T101MT. When I was running 10.10 the touch
> screen worked correctly.
>  After the 11.04 upgrade, the touch screen would not reorient (i.e.
> touchrotate inverted would rotate the display, but the touchscreen input
> would not rotate). I added the repository ppa:plippo/t101mt and followed the
> procedure described in
>  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/T101MT, but errors were reported. I've
> tried to remove and reinstall the packages, but
>  removal of eeepc-brightness-workaround and eeepc-powersave cannot be done.
> It crashes the GUI (hence this error report).
>  I believe the eeepc-touchscreen package is not supported by ubuntu, but
> since I have the opportunity to report the crash of
>  the ubuntu software GUI.
>
>  ProblemType: Crash
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: aptdaemon 0.41+bzr646-0ubuntu2
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
>  Annotation: Removing software failed
>  Architecture: i386
>  Date: Sun May  8 09:50:27 2011
>  DesktopFile: /usr/share/aptdaemon/aptdaemon.desktop
>  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386
> (20101007)
>  PackageArchitecture: all
>  SourcePackage: aptdaemon
>  Title: <type 'exceptions.SystemError'>: E:I wasn't able to locate file for
> the eeepc-powersave package. This might mean you need to manually fix this
> package.
>  TransactionDepends: [[], [], [], [], [], [], []]
>  TransactionErrorCode: error-unknown
>  TransactionKwargs: {}
>  TransactionLocale: en_US.UTF8
>  TransactionOutput:
>
>  TransactionPackages: [[], [],
> [dbus.String(u'eeepc-brightness-workaround')], [], [], []]
>  TransactionRole: role-remove-packages
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (7 days ago)
>
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