package emacs22-gtk 22.2-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[David A. Cobb]

Binary package hint: emacs22-gtk

During aptitude dist-upgrade -t=Intrepid
Ubuntu 8.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: emacs22-gtk 22.2-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: emacs22
Title: package emacs22-gtk 22.2-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[era (era)]

Quoting the pertinent part of DpkgTerminalLog.gz:
> Setting up emacs22-gtk (22.2-0ubuntu2) ...
> 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.v16030

In the unlikely event that you still have this file (or can reproduce the problem still, and thus produce a new file like that), please attach it here for analysis. Thanks.

[David A. Cobb (superbiskit)]

Now running emacs "23/1+1-4ubuntu2+22.2+0ubuntu6.1"
Because 23 is now available (more or less), I'm steering clear of "-snapshot"

Call this "Works For Me" I guess -- I don't see the problem presently.

Off hand (IMNSHO), "emacsen" should put compilation logs somewhere easier to not lose. Maybe I can get into it and come up with something, but any random monkey would probably finish the task more quickly.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

closing bug on submitter's request, thanks for reporting back.

as for the compilation logs, starting in lucid apport should be able to attach them automatically. perhaps we can backport that change to earlier ubuntu versions...

[Bakul Krishana (bakul-linux)]

thanks..

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden>wrote:

> closing bug on submitter's request, thanks for reporting back.
>
> as for the compilation logs, starting in lucid apport should be able to
> attach them automatically. perhaps we can backport that change to
> earlier ubuntu versions...
>
> ** Changed in: emacs22 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
> --
> package emacs22-gtk 22.2-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
> post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294851
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