Ubuntu
emacs-extra package

Byte-compilation for emacs22 failed

Bug #183306 reported by ant on 2008-01-15

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	emacs-extra (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: emacs-extra

Setting up emacs22 (22.1-0ubuntu5.1) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! 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.q10289
dpkg: error processing emacs22 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cedet-common:
cedet-common depends on emacs22 | emacsen; however:
  Package emacs22 is not configured yet.
  Package emacs22-gtk which provides emacs22 is not configured yet.
  Package emacsen is not installed.
  Package emacs-snapshot-gtk which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package xemacs21-mule which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package emacs which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package emacs22 which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package emacs21 which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package emacs-snapshot which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package emacs21-nox which provides emacsen is not installed.
  Package emacs-snapshot-nox which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package emacs22-gtk which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cedet-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of speedbar:
speedbar depends on cedet-common (>> 1:1.0pre4-1); however:
  Package cedet-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing speedbar (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacs22
cedet-common
speedbar
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up emacs22-gtk (22.1-0ubuntu5.1) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

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ant (s0346312) wrote on 2008-01-15:

a message in update manager said to attach this file:

!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs22.q10289

but i cant add it as the attachment bit below tells me "Cannot upload empty file.", the size of this file is 38.2Kb

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ant (s0346312) wrote on 2008-01-15:

i have 43 of these but ill not bother reporting that none of them will attach, i put the whole message from the update manager into:

Question #22248

cheers, Ant

Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) on 2008-01-17

Changed in emacs-extra:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Matthew Gadd (darkotter) wrote on 2008-08-07:

Error Report From Installer Edit (513 bytes, text/plain)

I also have this problem, for me it appears to occur during the installation of EITHER 'emacs22-gtk' or 'emacs22-nox'.

I get an identical error apart from the different package names and a different temp file.

I am attaching one of the temporary files I recieved with this error.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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era (era) wrote on 2009-07-27:

@Matthew Gadd: your problem seems unrelated to this one, at least superficially. The error message simply means that some package failed to install, but there are a lot of different packages and a lot of reasons they could fail to install. The file you attached seems to imply that you do not have emacs22 installed, although somehow your system tried to install a package for emacs22 anyway. Is this still a problem? Were you upgrading from emacs21 to emacs22? In any event, it would perhaps be best to submit a separate bug report, if you still have this problem.

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John Ye (yeminjiao) wrote on 2009-11-17:

I also met this problem. My solution was to 1st remove emacs22 (and all packages depend on it), then reinstall emacs22. It works.

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote on 2009-11-17:

without the compilation log, I fear there is nothing we can do. We should really look into adding an apport hook into our emacs packages so that these compilation logs are automatically attached, though.

In order to not confuse future bug reporters, I'm marking this bug as invalid. If someone encounters this issue again, please make sure to attach the compilation log.