Back to the root console apt-get update;apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade' followed by a reboot, and now I can use adept again. I successfully installed the xastir package, as well as the 10 dependencies it pulled in. SO this was apparently fixed by one of the ~200 packages updated since the herd 4 release.
-- dpkg: invalid nice value https://launchpad.net/bugs/88697 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
