package expand-region-el 0.9.0+2013.10.19-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[parmeshwor]

emacs uninstalled and then issue persisted.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: expand-region-el 0.9.0+2013.10.19-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-40.54~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt11
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 17 21:06:46 2015
Dependencies:

DuplicateSignature: package:expand-region-el:0.9.0+2013.10.19-1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-30 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: expand-region-el
Title: package expand-region-el 0.9.0+2013.10.19-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Barak A. Pearlmutter (bap)]

Thanks for the bug report.

This would appear to be a problem with emacsen-common, in particular the directory /var/lib/emacsen-common/state/flavor/installed is missing. Perhaps a cosmic ray hit your disk! Or some other source of filesystem corruption.

In any case, the bug does not appear to be in expand-region-el. And you can probably fix it by reinstalling emacsen-common.

[Barak A. Pearlmutter (bap)]

appears to be due to filesystem corruption rather than an actual package bug