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package ocaml-mode (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #662990 reported by Rodrigo Amorim on 2010-10-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #464587: ocaml-mode: Invalid syntax description flag: "()1n". Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ocaml

automatic bug report. Don't know what happen

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ocaml-mode (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic-pae 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 18 14:55:42 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
SourcePackage: ocaml
Title: package ocaml-mode (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Rodrigo Amorim (rodrigo-codecommunity) wrote on 2010-10-18:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (11.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (756 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (121.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (285.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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era (era) wrote on 2010-11-16:

Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.gz:
> While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/camldebug.el:
> !! error (("Invalid syntax description flag: \"()1n\""))
> >>Error occurred processing camldebug.el:
> Invalid syntax description flag: "()1n"

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #464587, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

As a temporary workaround, if you don't absolutely need to work with xemacs21, try emacs23 (GNU Emacs) instead. The bug is fixed in the forthcoming Ubuntu Natty Narwhal, so if you are comfortable working with an unreleased Ubuntu version, that could be another option. Finally, there may be a backport for Maverick or even Lucid of the ocaml-mode package, or you could perhaps find out how to create your own local patched version.