emacsen-common fails to write 00debian-vars.el and/or debian-startup.el

Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
> !! Byte-compilation for emacs22 failed!
> !! This indicates a bug in one of the add-on packages
> !! installed on your system, or a bug in Emacs itself.
> !! Please file a bug report against emacs22
> !! and attach the file /tmp/emacs22.icZSnU

We need the file /tmp/emacs22.icZSnU from your system in order to investigate this problem. Please attach the file to this bug report.

Files in /tmp are purged on reboot; you may be able to reproduce the problem by attempting to install emacs22 again. If so, a new file with a unique name will be created in /tmp; you can find the name from the file /var/log/apt/term.log, near the end.

I'm setting the Status of this bug report to Incomplete to mark it as pending on your input. Feel free to set the Status back to New once you have supplied the requested information. Thanks!

--- Gio 20/5/10, era <email address hidden> ha scritto:

Da: era <email address hidden>
Oggetto: [Bug 582341] Re: package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
A: <email address hidden>
Data: Giovedì 20 maggio 2010, 10:28

Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
> !! Byte-compilation for emacs22 failed!
> !! This indicates a bug in one of the add-on packages
> !! installed on your system, or a bug in Emacs itself.
> !! Please file a bug report against emacs22
> !! and attach the file /tmp/emacs22.icZSnU

We need the file /tmp/emacs22.icZSnU from your system in order to
investigate this problem.  Please attach the file to this bug report.

Files in /tmp are purged on reboot; you may be able to reproduce the
problem by attempting to install emacs22 again.  If so, a new file with
a unique name will be created in /tmp; you can find the name from the
file /var/log/apt/term.log, near the end.

I'm setting the Status of this bug report to Incomplete to mark it as
pending on your input.  Feel free to set the Status back to New once you
have supplied the requested information.  Thanks!

** Changed in: emacs22 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
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Status in “emacs22” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: emacs22

Binary package hint: emacs22

ProblemType: Package

Architecture: x86_64

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04

ErrorMessage: dpkg: errore processando emacs22 (--configure):
 il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1

Package: emacs22 (22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1)

SourcePackage: emacs22

Uname: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
Package: emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1
SourcePackage: emacs22
Title: package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64

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Quoting the attached /tmp/emacs22.icZSnU:
> emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs22
> cp: impossibile eseguire stat di "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el": Nessun file o directory

Can you investigate why this file doesn't exist? Is emacsen-common properly installed on your system (what does dpkg -l emacsen-common return?)

Some possibly related, unresolved bugs with similar symptoms include bug #155199, bug #281766, comment #3 of bug #529413, and possibly bug #584021.

The obvious workaround is to remove, then reinstall emacsen-common.

The missing files are conffiles, so you need to remove with --purge.

The output of "dpkg -l emacsen-common" are:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nome           Versione       Descrizione
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  emacsen-common 1.4.17         Common facilities for all emacsen

I think emacsen-common is properly installed.

--- Mer 26/5/10, era <email address hidden> ha scritto:

Da: era <email address hidden>
Oggetto: [Bug 582341] Re: package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
A: <email address hidden>
Data: Mercoledì 26 maggio 2010, 23:17

Quoting the attached /tmp/emacs22.icZSnU:
> emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs22
> cp: impossibile eseguire stat di "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el": Nessun file o directory

Can you investigate why this file doesn't exist?  Is emacsen-common
properly installed on your system (what does dpkg -l emacsen-common
return?)

** Package changed: emacs22 (Ubuntu) => emacsen-common (Ubuntu)

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Status in “emacsen-common” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: emacs22

Binary package hint: emacs22

ProblemType: Package

Architecture: x86_64

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04

ErrorMessage: dpkg: errore processando emacs22 (--configure):
 il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1

Package: emacs22 (22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1)

SourcePackage: emacs22

Uname: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
Package: emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1
SourcePackage: emacs22
Title: package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64

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It works! Thanks!
I have try to remove emacs and emacs22 (the source of the problem...) but not emacsen-common.......
Thanks!
Paolo Nicolini

--- Gio 27/5/10, era <email address hidden> ha scritto:

Da: era <email address hidden>
Oggetto: [Bug 582341] Re: emacsen-common fails to write 00debian-vars.el and/or debian-startup.el
A: <email address hidden>
Data: Giovedì 27 maggio 2010, 09:56

The obvious workaround is to remove, then reinstall emacsen-common.

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emacsen-common fails to write 00debian-vars.el and/or debian-startup.el
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Status in “emacsen-common” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: emacs22

Binary package hint: emacs22

ProblemType: Package

Architecture: x86_64

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04

ErrorMessage: dpkg: errore processando emacs22 (--configure):
 il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1

Package: emacs22 (22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1)

SourcePackage: emacs22

Uname: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
Package: emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1
SourcePackage: emacs22
Title: package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu2.9.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di errore 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64

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I have a vague hunch that this could be related to dpkg fsync bugs -- see bug #512096 and/or possibly bug #574524.

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: emacsen-common 1.4.19ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Tags: maverick
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev pulse pulse-access scanner video

apport information

Although the root cause is unknown and nobody has provided reliable repro steps, I am confirming this based on the large number of duplicates.

I went over the duplicate cases and they all (well, both) appear to have ext4 (after I pruned the ones which were not all that similar after all). They also all seem to me multiple-CPU systems. Bug #643016 shows in dmesg.txt that ext4 recovery removed some unreferenced inodes, but that might be a red herring. Another data point is bug #782033 which however was closed as Invalid, but it also seems to match the symptoms.

Some possibly related ext4 bugs: bug #317781 (zero-byte files), bug #453579 (large files, kernel 2.6.31), bug #438379 (suspend/resume problem).

I haven't seen this but any more since about one year and a half ago. Marking this bug as invalid, please anybody still seeing the bug or thinking this is not appropriate mark it as confirmed again.