package emacs22 22.1-0ubuntu10.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[fmhoyt]

Binary package hint: emacs22

Hardy Heron, Thinkpad T61 AMD64, Gnome, installation via synaptic

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 11 10:09:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: emacs22 22.1-0ubuntu10.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: emacs22
Title: package emacs22 22.1-0ubuntu10.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic x86_64

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

From the output you attached:

Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! Byte-compilation for emacs22 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 emacs22
!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs22.S10248
dpkg: error processing emacs22-gtk (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up emacs22 (22.1-0ubuntu10.1) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! Byte-compilation for emacs22 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 emacs22
!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs22.J10267
dpkg: error processing emacs22 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

please do so.

[fmhoyt (fmhoyt)]

More recent tmp file is attached. Errors involve ispell.el and flyspell.el. Installed dictionaries-common and dictionaries-common-dev but with no effect.

===========================
emacs-install emacs22
install/a2ps: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs22
Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/a2ps/path.elc
install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs22
>>Error occurred processing debian-ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/ema
cs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el"))
>>Error occurred processing ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/emacs22/si
te-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el"))
>>Error occurred processing flyspell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/emacs22/
site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el"))
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs22
emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs22
Loading /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50aleph-emacs.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/50auctex.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/22.1/site-lisp/auctex.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/22.1/site-lisp/preview-latex.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pymacs.el (source)...
Wrote /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
install/pspp: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs22
cd: 34: can't cd to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/pspp
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/pspp emacs22 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 2
8, <TSORT> line 6.

[fmhoyt (fmhoyt)]

The missing files:

/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el
/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el
/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el

are all symbolic links to non-existent files in a non-existent directory:

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/

I created this directory and copied over ispell.el.tgz and flyspell.el.tgz from:

/usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/textmodes/

and unpacked them. After doing so, ran install emacs22 and the only remaining error was the one for debian-ispell.el.

I can't find this file on my file system or via Google. Is there a configuration file that looks for this that could be changed?

[fmhoyt (fmhoyt)]

In the end I got it to work by cheating: I copied ispell.el in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common to debian-ispell.el and the byte compilation went forward.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

The directory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ and its contents are supposed to be installed by the package 'dictionaries-common'. On my system:

/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el

And all is well.

do you have the package 'ispell' installed? or perhaps you removed it but not purged?

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Chris (chris-drac)]

Hello,

Sorry for my late answer. It seemed to be related to a defunc package.
After a "complete" removal of emacs & new install, the problem
disappeared (one of the dependence was probably corrupted). I forgot to
clear the bug notification, sorry for that.

Christophe

Philip Muskovac a écrit :
> We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't
> heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested
> information? Thanks!
>
>

[era (era)]

Setting bug status to Invalid as there doesn't seem to be a way currently to find out what caused this. If you can reproduce this problem, feel free to set the status back to New (or even Confirmed). Thanks.