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package git 1:1.7.4.1-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status

Bug #723220 reported by Vedran Miletić on 2011-02-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #722946: git post-installation script fails if emacs and git is being installed at the same time.. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	git (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: git

Upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: git 1:1.7.4.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic-pae 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 22 17:02:35 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.2)
SourcePackage: git
Title: package git 1:1.7.4.1-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Vedran Miletić (vedranm) wrote on 2011-02-22:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (2.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (26.5 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeHistorylog.gz Edit (7.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (720 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (6.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeScreenlog0.gz Edit (32.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeSystemstatetargz.gz Edit (175.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote on 2011-02-22:

Here we have the actual error

Setting up git (1:1.7.4.1-1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/git ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50git-core.el ...
install/git: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs
install/git: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs23
install/git: byte-compiling for emacs23
ln: creating symbolic link `git.el': File exists
emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/git emacs23 emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1.
dpkg: error processing git (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

...which is just the same as in bug #722946, which is also an upgrade from a previous Ubuntu release. Marking this report as a duplicate. Please provide any feedback you can in bug #722946.