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package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

Bug #917601 reported by Michael Horgan on 2012-01-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #789706: Couldn't find obvious defaults for: data-directory lisp-directory. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dictionaries-common (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

It started when I upgraded to Precise Pangolin. It does this everytime I update the system.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-7.13-generic 3.2.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 17 03:51:25 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-02 (46 days ago)

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Michael Horgan (mhorgan) wrote on 2012-01-17:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (17.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (473 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (62.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (40.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (5.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
DuplicateSignature.gz Edit (425 bytes, application/x-gzip)

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2012-01-17

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Michael Horgan (mhorgan) wrote on 2012-02-19:

This bug also affects my emacs and xemacs. Someone nees to look into it and fix it. My laptop with Precise does not have this bug when updating.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-04-28:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in dictionaries-common (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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era (era) wrote on 2012-06-27:

> Setting up dictionaries-common (1.12.1ubuntu2) ...
> install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour xemacs21
>
> WARNING:
> Couldn't find obvious defaults for:
> data-directory
> mule-lisp-directory
> lisp-directory
> Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable,
> /usr/bin/xemacs21
> is in a strange place? Symbol's function definition is void: batch-byte-compile
> xemacs exiting
> .
> emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common xemacs21 xemacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1.
> dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

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 #789706, 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.