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Stuart Walker (stuartwalker50-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 584021] Re: package emacsen-common 1.4.19ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

I am sorry - the output is:

stuart@lucid-lynx:~$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100578 2010-05-10 07:37
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23-common.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167081 2010-03-29 21:34
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23-common.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1593 2010-03-29 21:34
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23-common.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 663 2010-03-29 21:34
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23-common.prerm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-10-26 13:34
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-common.conffiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022 2010-05-09 22:31
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-common.list
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2009-10-26 13:34
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-common.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2009-10-26 13:34
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-common.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2009-10-26 13:34
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-common.prerm
stuart@lucid-lynx:~$

cheers
Stuart

On 24 May 2010 20:43, era <email address hidden> wrote:

> Could you still post the output of ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs*
> please.
>
> --
> package emacsen-common 1.4.19ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
> installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584021
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> Status in “emacsen-common” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: emacsen-common
>
> I have recently updgraded from Karmic to Lucid, and this error pops up from
> time to time when I update the system. Not sure what caused it, and the
> system brought me here. It is more an irritant, and if you feel its not
> worthy of a bug fix, then then exclamation mark notification of a system
> error which asked me if I wanted to help is the culprit!
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: emacsen-common 1.4.19ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri May 21 22:00:49 2010
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 2
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: emacsen-common
> Title: package emacsen-common 1.4.19ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
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