gclcvs fails to install on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic - postinst script error trying to run register-common-lisp-implementation

[hereticpope]

Binary package hint: gclcvs

Some programs installing ok some not all the time the same thing.

ProblemType: Package
AptOrdering:
 openarena-data: Install
 openarena: Install
 gclcvs: Configure
 openarena-data: Configure
 openarena: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 5 05:54:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: gclcvs 2.7.0-64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gclcvs
Title: package gclcvs 2.7.0-64 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

Looks like a duplicate of bug #411073

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

Confirmed. After installing gclcvs on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic amd64, I see this issue too.

Basically, this means that something about the package gclcvs is unhappy. Please try

  sudo apt-get purge gclcvs

in a Terminal, as a first step. This appears to take care of the issue for me.

The problem during installing gclcvs is that it tries to run a program that doesn't seem to exist:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/gclcvs.postinst: 52: register-common-lisp-implementation: not found

The gcl package (a slightly older version of GCL) does not seem to have this issue, so unless you absolutely require the gclcvs version, you can just install gcl instead:

  sudo apt-get install gcl

Setting status to confirmed. Steps to reproduce:

  sudo apt-get install gclcvs

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

fixed in debian gclcvs (2.7.0-49). gclcvs should depend on common-lisp-controller.

$sudo apt-get install common-lisp-controller

but on lucid i still get an uninstallable package with postinst failing

gclcvs.sh Installing clc as Segmentation violation: c stack ok:signalling error Unrecoverable error: Segmentation violation.. ...
Segmentation violation: c stack ok:signalling error
Unrecoverable error: Segmentation violation..
Aborted
Error building send-clc-command

[developx (developx)]

==================================================================================
Temporary directory for compiler files set to /tmp/

>
#<"COMMON-LISP-USER" package>

>
;; Loading /usr/share/common-lisp/source/common-lisp-controller/common-lisp-controller.lisp
;; Finished loading /usr/share/common-lisp/source/common-lisp-controller/common-lisp-controller.lisp
T

>
#<"COMMON-LISP-CONTROLLER" package>

COMMON-LISP-CONTROLLER>
;; Loading /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/0/gcl-2.7.0/common-lisp-controller/common-lisp-controller.o
 ;; start address -T 0x10565e0 ;; Finished loading /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/0/gcl-2.7.0/common-lisp-controller/common-lisp-controller.o
; COMPILER::|compiler preprocess| is being compiled.
;; Warning: Caller PARSE-COMPONENT-FORM appears after callee %REMOVE-COMPONENT-INLINE-METHODS,
   whose sig changed from ((*) *) to ((T T) T), restart pass1

;; Warning: Caller PARSE-COMPONENT-FORM appears after callee CHECK-COMPONENT-INPUT,
   whose sig changed from ((T T T T T T) *) to ((T T T T T T) NULL), restart pass1

Segmentation fault
Error building send-clc-command
dpkg: error processing gclcvs (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gclcvs
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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