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emacs24 package

package emacs24 24.3+1-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #1235901 reported by skipper on 2013-10-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1210525: package gforth 0.7.0+ds2-0.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	emacs24 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

got this message while upgrading to saucy

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: emacs24 24.3+1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-32.47-generic 3.8.13.10
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 6 19:29:55 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:emacs24:24.3+1-1ubuntu3:ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-15 (232 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130214)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: emacs24
Title: package emacs24 24.3+1-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-06 (0 days ago)

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skipper (attila-egri-nagy) wrote on 2013-10-06:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstatetargz.gz Edit (736.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (4.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (68.2 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeHistorylog.gz Edit (24.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (581 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (16.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2013-10-06

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-10-10:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in emacs24 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Dario Bertini (berdario) wrote on 2013-10-10:

This is probably not a bug with emacs24, but with another package that supplies some broken .el files to be bytecompiled (in my case, it was the gforth package)