package xemacs21-mule 21.4.22-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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xemacs21 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xemacs21
Hello. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix. I'm not a particularly experienced programmer or linux user at all but I'm trying very hard to learn the skills and gain that experience. Unfortunately I'm having trouble configuring the necessary tools. I was installing tools for OCaml, which seemed to go fine, but additional tools for emacs support were suggested and did not all install successfully. I'm not sure how to accurately summarize the errors so I'll just paste what seems to be the most relevant output. Please excuse me if it's a waste of space.
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install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
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The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package emacs23-common should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support
Setting up emacs23-bin-common (23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2) ...
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Setting up emacs23-nox (23.1+1-4ubuntu3.2) ...
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emacs-install emacs23
install/
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emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs23
emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs23
Wrote /etc/emacs23/
In debian-
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`dolist' instead
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install/ocaml-mode: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs23
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install/
Loading 00debian-vars...
No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...
Loading /etc/emacs/
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Setting up xemacs21-nomule (21.4.22-2ubuntu1) ...
emacs-install xemacs21
install/
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor xemacs21
emacsen-common: byte-compiling for xemacs21
Loading /usr/share/
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No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...
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install/ocaml-mode: Handling install for emacsen flavor xemacs21
Compiling /usr/share/
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Compiling /usr/share/
Loading caml... (file caml.el is newer)
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/
!! error (("Invalid syntax description flag: \"()1n\""))
>>Error occurred processing camldebug.el:
Invalid syntax description flag: "()1n"
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Loading caml-xemacs... (file caml-xemacs.el is newer)
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Done
emacs-install: /usr/lib/
dpkg: error processing xemacs21-nomule (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up xemacs21-
Setting up xemacs21-mule (21.4.22-2ubuntu1) ...
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emacs-install xemacs21
install/
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor xemacs21
emacsen-common: byte-compiling for xemacs21
Loading /usr/share/
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No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...
Loading 50autoconf...
Loading 50dictionaries-
Loading debian-ispell...
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Loading /var/cache/
Compiling /etc/xemacs21/
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Compiling /usr/share/
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Done
install/ocaml-mode: Handling install for emacsen flavor xemacs21
Compiling /usr/share/
Wrote /usr/share/
Compiling /usr/share/
Loading caml... (file caml.el is newer)
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/
!! error (("Invalid syntax description flag: \"()1n\""))
>>Error occurred processing camldebug.el:
Invalid syntax description flag: "()1n"
Compiling /usr/share/
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Loading caml-xemacs... (file caml-xemacs.el is newer)
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Done
emacs-install: /usr/lib/
dpkg: error processing xemacs21-mule (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up ocaml-mode (3.11.1-2) ...
install/ocaml-mode: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs23
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Setting up tuareg-mode (1:1.45.6-2) ...
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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xemacs21:
xemacs21 depends on xemacs21-mule (>= 21.4.22-2ubuntu1) | xemacs21-
Package xemacs21-mule is not configured yet.
Package xemacs21-
Package xemacs21-nomule is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xemacs21 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
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No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
xemacs21-nomule
xemacs21-mule
xemacs21
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 15 15:42:50 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-
Package: xemacs21-mule 21.4.22-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: xemacs21
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Title: package xemacs21-mule 21.4.22-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686
Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.gz: xemacs21/ site-lisp/ ocaml-mode/ camldebug. el:
> While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/
> !! error (("Invalid syntax description flag: \"()1n\""))
> >>Error occurred processing camldebug.el:
> Invalid syntax description flag: "()1n"
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #464587, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
As a temporary workaround, if you don't absolutely need to work with xemacs21, try emacs23 (GNU Emacs) instead. The bug is fixed in the forthcoming Ubuntu Natty Narwhal, so if you are comfortable working with an unreleased Ubuntu version, that could be another option. Finally, there may be a backport for Maverick or even Karmic of the ocaml-mode package, or you could perhaps find out how to create your own local patched version.