emacs21 fails to install

[Stuart Langridge]

In a fresh install of the Ubuntu 1.0 preview release, emacs21 fails to install:
Setting up emacs21 (21.3+1-5ubuntu3) ...
emacs-install emacs21
install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs21
Warning: Lisp directory `/etc/emacs21' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/21.3/site-lisp' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/21.3/leim' does not exist.
Cannot open load file: disp-table
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common
emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 3.
dpkg: error processing emacs21 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs21
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I've made sure that the emacs21 package was fetched from the net archive, not
from the CD (in case of a bad CD burn).

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Emacs21 is installed by default in Ubuntu. Is this an upgrade from Debian
woody, a custom install, or did the installation actually fail in this way?

The directories which are flagged as missing are contained in the emacs21-common
package, and emacs21 (indirectly) depends on an exact version of emacs21-common,
so I don't see how this could happen

[Stuart Langridge (sil-kryogenix)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Emacs21 is installed by default in Ubuntu. Is this an upgrade from Debian
> woody, a custom install, or did the installation actually fail in this way?

The installation failed. Subsequent "apt-get install emacs21"s, even after
purging the emacs21 package, continued to fail.

> The directories which are flagged as missing are contained in the emacs21-common
> package, and emacs21 (indirectly) depends on an exact version of emacs21-common,
> so I don't see how this could happen

I've just purged and reinstalled emacs21-common, emacs21-bin-common, and
emacs21, and the problem does not exhibit itself. I suspect, therefore, that my
CD had a corrupted emacs21-common package (a bad burn), and that this is
therefore not an Ubuntu problem!

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Thanks for working through the problem