[Bug 88697] Re: dpkg: invalid nice value

[Richard Green]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 85979 ***

Fresh install of Feisty herd 5 X86_64
Adept updater tells me there are 115 updates, two packages to remove.
  After downloading, window shows a progress bar labelled 'preparing...' at 0%.
  A second window opens labelled 'Debconf on rtg-laptop' with the message 'Incorrect nice value; Please enter an integer between -20 and 19', but no input box.
'Next' does nothing.  'Cancel' closes the window and the updater appears to continue.
  At 5% 'Preparing upgrade of x11-common...', I get the same message window again.
  This time, clicking 'cancel' causes the following message window to appear in the center of the adept updater window:

"Could not commit changes - Adept Updater.  There was an error
committing changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some
packages or the commit would break packages"

This was followed almost immediately by the appearance of a third 'incorrect nice value message window.  I close this window, then click OK in the 'could not commit changes' dialog.
  The adept updater window shows 'Update complete', and offers me only a 'Quit' option.

Why don't I have a warm fuzzy about this message???

I click 'quit' and the window closes.

I open a Konsole window, and enter 'ps aux | grep adept', and am
presented with three PIDs:  adept-notifier, kio-file, and kio-http, all
in status S.

I issue 'sudo apt-get upgrade' as I did on herd 4, and I am presented with 77 to upgrade, and 35 not fully installed or removed.  The upgrade proceeds without further prompting.
A second upgrade, followed by a dist-upgrade, present no further packages to be upgraded or installed.

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dpkg: invalid nice value
https://launchpad.net/bugs/88697