Comment 3 for bug 218955

Fully attached as requested, but perhaps you want to see `cat /var/log/dpkg.log|grep lirc`, which is copied below. I chose to keep my existing hardware.conf, but I don't see why this would have anything to do with the problem.

2008-04-16 10:34:02 upgrade liblircclient-dev 0.8.2-0ubuntu8 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status half-configured liblircclient-dev 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status unpacked liblircclient-dev 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status half-installed liblircclient-dev 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status half-installed liblircclient-dev 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status unpacked liblircclient-dev 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status unpacked liblircclient-dev 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 10:34:02 upgrade liblircclient0 0.8.2-0ubuntu8 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status half-configured liblircclient0 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status unpacked liblircclient0 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status half-installed liblircclient0 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status half-installed liblircclient0 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status unpacked liblircclient0 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 10:34:02 status unpacked liblircclient0 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 21:55:28 upgrade lirc-x 0.8.2-0ubuntu8 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 21:55:28 status half-configured lirc-x 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 21:55:28 status unpacked lirc-x 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 21:55:28 status half-installed lirc-x 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 21:55:28 status half-installed lirc-x 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 21:55:28 status unpacked lirc-x 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 21:55:28 status unpacked lirc-x 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 21:55:43 upgrade lirc 0.8.2-0ubuntu8 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 21:55:43 status half-configured lirc 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 21:55:45 status unpacked lirc 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 21:55:45 status half-installed lirc 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 21:55:45 status half-installed lirc 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 21:55:47 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 21:55:47 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:10:37 upgrade lirc-modules-source 0.8.2-0ubuntu8 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:10:37 status half-configured lirc-modules-source 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 22:10:37 status unpacked lirc-modules-source 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 22:10:37 status half-installed lirc-modules-source 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 22:10:38 status half-installed lirc-modules-source 0.8.2-0ubuntu8
2008-04-16 22:10:38 status unpacked lirc-modules-source 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:10:38 status unpacked lirc-modules-source 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:14:02 configure liblircclient0 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:14:02 status unpacked liblircclient0 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:14:02 status half-configured liblircclient0 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:14:03 status installed liblircclient0 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:14:03 configure liblircclient-dev 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:14:03 status unpacked liblircclient-dev 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:14:03 status half-configured liblircclient-dev 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:14:03 status installed liblircclient-dev 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:39:44 configure lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:39:44 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 conffile /etc/lirc/hardware.conf keep
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status unpacked lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:41:49 status half-configured lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:42:40 status installed lirc 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:42:40 configure lirc-x 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:42:40 status unpacked lirc-x 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:42:40 status half-configured lirc-x 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:42:40 status installed lirc-x 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:54:09 configure lirc-modules-source 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:54:09 status unpacked lirc-modules-source 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:54:09 status half-configured lirc-modules-source 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
2008-04-16 22:56:54 status installed lirc-modules-source 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7