Byte-compilation for emacs-snapshot failed

[Mike Longfritz]

From the install:

Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu/ lucid/main emacs-snapshot-common 2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1 [22.3MB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu/ lucid/main emacs-snapshot-bin-common 2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1 [179kB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu/ lucid/main emacs-snapshot 2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1 [3,142kB]
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu/ lucid/main emacs-snapshot-el 2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1 [14.5MB]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu/ lucid/main emacs-snapshot-gtk 2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1 [24.5kB]
Fetched 40.2MB in 3s (12.3MB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package emacs-snapshot-common.
(Reading database ... 194093 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking emacs-snapshot-common (from .../emacs-snapshot-common_2%3a20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package emacs-snapshot-bin-common.
Unpacking emacs-snapshot-bin-common (from .../emacs-snapshot-bin-common_2%3a20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package emacs-snapshot.
Unpacking emacs-snapshot (from .../emacs-snapshot_2%3a20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package emacs-snapshot-el.
Unpacking emacs-snapshot-el (from .../emacs-snapshot-el_2%3a20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package emacs-snapshot-gtk.
Unpacking emacs-snapshot-gtk (from .../emacs-snapshot-gtk_2%3a20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/xemacs21/emodules.info.gz'
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up emacs-snapshot-common (2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1) ...

Setting up emacs-snapshot-bin-common (2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1) ...

Setting up emacs-snapshot (2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot-gtk to provide /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot (emacs-snapshot) in auto mode.
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! Byte-compilation for emacs-snapshot failed!
!! This indicates a bug in one of the add-on packages
!! installed on your system, or a bug in Emacs itself.
!! Please file a bug report against emacs-snapshot
!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs-snapshot.qb6UmN
dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up emacs-snapshot-el (2:20120911fake2-1~ppa1~lucid1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs-snapshot-gtk:
 emacs-snapshot-gtk depends on emacs-snapshot; however:
  Package emacs-snapshot is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs-snapshot
 emacs-snapshot-gtk
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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I've attached the error file mentioned above.

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I repeated the install from scratch (apt-get update/install/purge, add-apt-repository, apt-get update/install, copy-n-paste from the main page) with the same result. In fact, the same error occurred on the second step (install) in that sequence (not a surprise).

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

I can't reproduce on Lucid 10.04.4 LTS 32bits. Can you please copy/paste the result of the execution of all the steps in the PPA main page?

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

I'm closing this bug as there hasn't been any answer to my question. Feel free to open it again with more details.

[Techpraxic Systems (techpraxis)]

I am experiencing problem symptoms which lead me to believe I am also experiencing this bug or a nearly similar one.

as apt-get is telling me I have broken packages, (your packages, Damien Cassou) I ran:

praxis-Lenovo-G580 ~ # apt-get install --fix-broken
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  liblcms1:i386 xsel
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up emacs-snapshot (2:20130905-1~ppa1~quantal1) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! Byte-compilation for emacs-snapshot failed!
!! This indicates a bug in one of the add-on packages
!! installed on your system, or a bug in Emacs itself.
!! Please file a bug report against emacs-snapshot
!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs-snapshot.z0PdOs
dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs-snapshot-gtk:
 emacs-snapshot-gtk depends on emacs-snapshot; however:
  Package emacs-snapshot is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs-snapshot
 emacs-snapshot-gtk
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Techpraxic Systems (techpraxis)]

In my /tmp directory, since Sept 9, when the first failure occurred, I have the following (byte-identical) error log files:

praxis-Lenovo-G580 tmp # ls -alF emacs*
-rw------- 1 root root 160 Sep 9 13:43 emacs-snapshot.hiCk6f
-rw------- 1 root root 160 Sep 13 19:53 emacs-snapshot.z0PdOs
-rw------- 1 root root 160 Sep 9 13:42 emacs-snapshot.Zy8xFd
praxis-Lenovo-G580 tmp # cat emacs-snapshot.Zy8xFd
Install apel for emacs-snapshot
install/apel: byte-compiling for emacs-snapshot, logged in /tmp/elc.W7Wl1GREdFrS
ERROR: install script from apel package failed
praxis-Lenovo-G580 tmp # cat emacs-snapshot.z0PdOs
Install apel for emacs-snapshot
install/apel: byte-compiling for emacs-snapshot, logged in /tmp/elc.9mEj0mawwfom
ERROR: install script from apel package failed
praxis-Lenovo-G580 tmp # cat emacs-snapshot.hiCk6f
Install apel for emacs-snapshot
install/apel: byte-compiling for emacs-snapshot, logged in /tmp/elc.l21JcKuquFIM
ERROR: install script from apel package failed
praxis-Lenovo-G580 tmp #

[Techpraxic Systems (techpraxis)]

Is this also an incidence of bug filed here by someone in Aug 2013: https://bugs.launchpad.net/emacs-snapshot/+bug/1210956 ?

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

Could you please remove 'apel' from your system? And try again, following all the steps at https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs/