package vm-bonus-el 29.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Binary package hint: emacs-goodies-el

ackage vm-bonus-el 29.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: vm-bonus-el 29.3-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: emacs-goodies-el
Title: package vm-bonus-el 29.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[John Relph (relph)]

The problem is this:

install/vm: Byte-compiling for emacs21...rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/vm': Directory not empty

There is a backup file present in that directory which should not exist:

ls -l /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/vm/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2347 2008-11-30 08:17 cus-load.el~

It looks like either somebody or some script didn't clean up properly.

[Peter S Galbraith (psg)]

Looks to me like the vm package install (on which vm-bonus-el depends) failed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[era (era)]

vm-bonus was removed in 35.11 so marking this as "Fix Released" (or should it be "Invalid" because it cannot be reproduced anymore?)