package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade:

[Dave Turvene]

Binary package hint: emacs22

Upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 via upgrade manager. I use emacs for almost everything and have a heavy .emacs file that loads a lot of libraries. I strongly suspect it's my .emacs. I'm currently running emacs 22.2.1 but not sure if that is pre- or post-upgrade.

I will restart as 9.10 and try to do a manul upgrade of emacs.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 23 10:28:54 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu6.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-19.66-generic
SourcePackage: emacs22
Title: package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-19-generic i686

[era (era)]

Quoting the attached
> !! 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.Xm0lSd

If you still have this file on your system, please add it to this bug report. If you no longer have the file on your system, you may be able to recreate a similar file by attempting to reinstall emacs22. The file name will be different, though; look near the end of /var/log/apt/term.log for the correct file name (you will need root / sudo access to access the log file).

I am setting the Status of this bug report to Incomplete to mark it as pending on your input. Once you supply the requested information, it can be changed back to New.

For what it's worth, the package installation scripts do not use your personal .emacs file at all; they only run with the system-wide site-lisp.

[Dave Turvene (dturvene)]

Here is the /tmp/emacs22.* log file when trying to re-install emacs22::

emacs-install emacs22
install/a2ps: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs22
cd: 35: can't cd to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/a2ps
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/a2ps emacs22 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 4.

Seems similar to this issue

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs22/+bug/281766

There are package install/remove for emacsen a2ps but no package. I moved /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/a2ps and ../remove/a2ps and it looks like emacs is upgrading okay.

My guess is the emacsen a2ps package was automatically removed on an upgrade but the packages scripts were not removed.

[era (era)]

Reassigning to a2ps as per latest comment. See also possibly related bug #427460