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emacs23 package

package emacs23 23.3+1-1ubuntu9.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #1065174 reported by Caleb Cullen on 2012-10-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #466531: ecb: incompatible with emacs23, breaks installation / upgrade. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	emacs23 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

This error occurred during the dist-upgrade process.

fuzzy@unicycle:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

fuzzy@unicycle:~$ apt-cache policy emacs23
emacs23:
  Installed: 23.3+1-1ubuntu9.1
  Candidate: 23.3+1-1ubuntu9.1
  Version table:
*** 23.3+1-1ubuntu9.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     23.3+1-1ubuntu9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: emacs23 23.3+1-1ubuntu9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 10 13:35:50 2012
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
SourcePackage: emacs23
Title: package emacs23 23.3+1-1ubuntu9.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-10-10 (0 days ago)

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Caleb Cullen (pandemix) wrote on 2012-10-10:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstatetargz.gz Edit (478.2 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (16.9 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (94.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeHistorylog.gz Edit (28.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (562 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (20.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (98.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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era (era) wrote on 2012-10-10:

Quoting the attached VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz:
> ecb-common-browser.el:47:1:Error: Failed to find version for newly installed cedet

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #466531, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.