I'm glad that fixed it, now lets hopefully try to figure out why that was causing a bug in the first place so that we can try to avoid it for future users.
What version of lirc-modules-source did you have installed? This should be in the logs in /var/log/dpkg.log or /var/log/apt/. Do you remember at what point you installed it? Was it before this newer kernel got installed?
I'm glad that fixed it, now lets hopefully try to figure out why that was causing a bug in the first place so that we can try to avoid it for future users.
What version of lirc-modules-source did you have installed? This should be in the logs in /var/log/dpkg.log or /var/log/apt/. Do you remember at what point you installed it? Was it before this newer kernel got installed?