dapper->hardy upgrade fails with cedet installed

[John Rodgers]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Failed

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 2 01:33:11 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp-2J1pd/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp-2J1pd/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp-2J1pd/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.27
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.27 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp-2J1pd/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp-2J1pd/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp-2J1pd/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.15-51-386 i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is what is causing the error:

Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/jde/jde-xemacs.elc
While compiling jde-xref-guess-prefixes in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/jde/jde-xref.el:
  ** `(file-directory-p (concat base-path "/" package-path "/" dir))' called for effect
  ** `(file-directory-p (concat base-path "/" package-path "/" dir))' called for effect
While compiling jde-xref-next-caller in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/jde/jde-xref.el:
  ** `(car (prog1 jde-xref-stack (setq jde-xref-stack (cdr jde-xref-stack))))' called for effect
  ** `(car (prog1 jde-xref-stack (setq jde-xref-stack (cdr jde-xref-stack))))' called for effect
Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/jde/jde-xref.elc
"/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/" added to `load-path'
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/jde/jde.el:
  !! error (("Failed to find version for newly installed cogre"))
Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/jde/regress.elc
Done
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/jde emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 16.
dpkg: error processing emacs21 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cedet-common:
 cedet-common depends on emacs22 | emacsen; however:
  Package emacs22 is not installed.
  Package emacsen is not installed.
  Package emacs21 which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cedet-common (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of speedbar:
 speedbar depends on cedet-common (>> 1:1.0pre4-1); however:
  Package cedet-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing speedbar (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs21
 cedet-common
 speedbar

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Milestoning as it breaks upgrade.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) is EOL.