package emacs23 23.2 1-7ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück

Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
> emacs23 (23.2+1-7ubuntu2) wird eingerichtet ...
> emacs-install emacs23
> install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs23
> >>Error occurred processing debian-ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el"))
> >>Error occurred processing ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el"))
> >>Error occurred processing flyspell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el"))
> emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 2.
> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von emacs23 (--configure):
> Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück

This looks like a duplicate of bug #582341 but without more information, it is hard to tell. What is the installation status of the packages supplying these files? If you purge and reinstall, can you then install Emacs as planned? Are there other missing files in the system? (This is untested, but I assume it should not normally produce any "file not found" error messages: cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | xargs ls >/dev/null)

Also, what file system do you have on the partition where Emacs is installed?

I am setting the Status of this bug report to Incomplete to mark it as pending on further input from you. Once you have supplied the requested information, the bug's status can be changed back to New (or perhaps even Confirmed).

Oh, you can ignore the last question. According to Df.txt the root partition is on sda1 (and has plenty of free space). According to Dmesg.txt, sda1 is ext4. I'm noting here my vague hypothesis that this might have with ext4 to do.

my installation was an upgrade from ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. during the
upgrade-process there was no errors or complains.

my file system is ext4

yesterday i installed ubuntu 11.04 from the cd. then i had no problem
with emacs. so i think. my problem depends on the upgrade of ubuntu.

Am 2011-05-16 11:32, schrieb era:
> Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
>> emacs23 (23.2+1-7ubuntu2) wird eingerichtet ...
>> emacs-install emacs23
>> install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs23
>>>> Error occurred processing debian-ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el"))
>>>> Error occurred processing ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el"))
>>>> Error occurred processing flyspell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el"))
>> emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 2.
>> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von emacs23 (--configure):
>> Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
>
> This looks like a duplicate of bug #582341 but without more information,
> it is hard to tell. What is the installation status of the packages
> supplying these files? If you purge and reinstall, can you then install
> Emacs as planned? Are there other missing files in the system? (This
> is untested, but I assume it should not normally produce any "file not
> found" error messages: cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | xargs ls
>> /dev/null)
>

Do I interpret your latest comment to mean that the case can be closed because there is no way to find out what went wrong any longer?

If you agree with my analysis I could also mark this as a duplicate of #582341 but if you wiped the installation I guess this should just be closed as Invalid.

yes, i made a fresh installation because i was in hurry. sorry.

On 2011-05-17 13:41, era wrote:
> Do I interpret your latest comment to mean that the case can be closed
> because there is no way to find out what went wrong any longer?
>
> If you agree with my analysis I could also mark this as a duplicate of
> #582341 but if you wiped the installation I guess this should just be
> closed as Invalid.
>

Closing as Invalid as per last comment.

Oh and don't worry about the reinstall, the primary thing is of course to get you back on track. Problem solved. If others experience the same root cause it will get fixed eventually.

I'm marking as a duplicate after all. I noticed that all the cases seem to be multiple-CPU systems with ext4. Maybe this is significant.