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[Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It fixed my tablet but the E5 
the powerd removal dimmed my screen brightness right down! so couldnt
see it to turn it back up :(
flashed it and its working again 
i tried recovery etc it was just stuck down 
hopefully should be ok now !!
thanks guys 

Regards
Wayne

On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 12:04 +0200, Lukasz Zemczak wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> As already mentioned on the mailing list, the recent nightly
> rc-proposed images had a regression in power management. This has now
> been fixed and the next rc-proposed image should be good - please
> update as soon as you see an update notification.
> 
> Now for the explanation: as mentioned in the landing e-mail, we had
> to
> revert the recent repowerd landing. The repowerd package provided a
> virtual powerd transitional package to make sure it replaces the
> existing powerd. We removed repowerd from the overlay (as part of the
> revert), but this caused Launchpad to think that there no longer is a
> binary package called powerd in the PPA - even though the old powerd
> (providing the powerd binary) was still there as it was before. So
> the
> builder when building the image pulled in a very ancient powerd from
> the main vivid archives instead, causing complete breakage.
> 
> We fixed that and re-built a new image. Please upgrade and check if
> things are working back again as they did before.
> 
> We apologize for the inconvenience. This is the risk of using
> rc-proposed though: you never know when things will break down. We
> try
> to react ASAP, but some things can be only tested/seen on images that
> are published. As always we recommend using the stable channels
> instead.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
>  Foundations Team
>  lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  www.canonical.com
>