package emacs22-gtk 22.1-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade:

For triaging this bug, we would need a logfile of the upgrade.

Most probably some add-on package caused this crash. It is impossible to detect the culprit with the given information.

There seem to be several bugs already reported concerning problems with emacs upgrades, so rather than start a new one, I've just chosen this one to add to. I have a fresh Gutsy x86 install. Everything went well. But on a recent dist-upgrade emacs, jde, and ecb now have problems... Please see attached.

yes, a new emacs will recompile all add-on packages for the new emacs version. the reports you've noticed (and this is another one) are actually bugs in the add-on packages, and not necessarily in emacs22 itself.

we need the install log of the original reporter. Your install log indicates a problem in jde. Can you reproduce the problem if you purge (dpkg --purge jde) before installing emacs22? If yes, please file a new bug against jde.

if I purge jde, then emacs updates itself correctly. and then i can
aptitude install jde. however, i need to swap the first two lines in
/usr/share/doc-base/jde so that "Document:" is first. but i had
already corrected this problem, and this is not the cause of my report
below. i'm a little confused as i've seen this happen a couple of
times in the past. i think i even had a problem with "aptitude install
emacs21 gnus" once. where this had to be done in two separate calls to
aptitude, first to install emacs21, and then gnus.

On 11/17/07, Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> wrote:
> yes, a new emacs will recompile all add-on packages for the new emacs
> version. the reports you've noticed (and this is another one) are
> actually bugs in the add-on packages, and not necessarily in emacs22
> itself.
>
> we need the install log of the original reporter. Your install log
> indicates a problem in jde. Can you reproduce the problem if you purge
> (dpkg --purge jde) before installing emacs22? If yes, please file a new
> bug against jde.
>
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> package emacs22-gtk 22.1-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154699
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I think there is a problem in speedbar:

I was getting emacs22 byte-compilation errors as described above
but the /tmp/emacs.XXXX files seemed to point to the speedbar package.
I tried to byte compile the files in /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/speedbar
by hand, and succeeded after adding the directory to load-path. However,
the emacs22 setup was still failing at the same place.

So I did

        dpkg --purge jde
        dpkg --purge speedbar
        dpkg --purge semantic
        dpkg --purge eieio
        dpkg --purge cedet-common

(the purge did not touch /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/speedbar, perhaps
because I had byte-compiled some files in there by hand, so I removed
the directory manually). The emacs22 setup then went through fine.

I then tried to reinstall jde which depends on speedbar, semantic, eieio
and possibly some others. I get the following errors:

===========================================================================

Selecting previously deselected package speedbar.
(Reading database ... 293847 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking speedbar (from .../speedbar_1%3a1.0pre3-6_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package eieio.
Unpacking eieio (from .../eieio_1%3a1.0pre3-6_all.deb) ...
Setting up speedbar (1.0pre3-6) ...
install/cedet-common: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21
Loading 00debian-vars...
Loading 20calc-init (source)...
Loading 20gnus-init (source)...
Loading 35elib-startup (source)...
Loading 42hyperlatex...
Loading /usr/lib/emacs/21.4/i486-linux-gnu/fns-21.4.1-x.el (source)...
Loading 50auctex (source)...
Loading auctex.el (source)...
Loading preview-latex.el (source)...
Loading 50autoconf (source)...
Loading 50bbdb (source)...
Error while loading 50bbdb
Loading 50cedet-common (source)...
Source file `/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-autogen.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Loading 50cscope (source)...
Loading 50cxref-emacs (source)...
Loading cxref...
Loading 50dictionaries-common (source)...
Loading debian-ispell...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...
Loading 50emacs-goodies-el (source)...
Loading 50emacs-intl-fonts (source)...
Loading 50emacs-wiki (source)...
Loading 50festival (source)...
Loading 50gettext (source)...
Loading 50global (source)...
Loading 50gnuplot-mode (source)...
Loading 50gnus-bonus-el (source)...
Loading 50gnuserv (source)...
Loading 50lilypond-data (source)...
Loading 50mailcrypt (source)...
Loading 50mailutils-mh (source)...
Loading 50maxima-emacs (source)...
Loading 50mgp (source)...
Loading 50mh-e (source)...
Loading 50muse-el (source)...
Loading muse-autoloads.el (source)...
Loading 50oo-browser (source)...
Loading 50psgml-init (source)...
Loading 50psvn (source)...
Loading 50pymacs (source)...
Loading 50python-docutils (source)...
Loading 50python-mode (source)...
Loading 50quilt-el (source)...
Loading 50timidity-el (source)...
Loading 50w3m-el (source)...
Loading 50wget-el (source)...
Loading 51ede (source)...
Loading 51planner-el (source)...
Loading planner-autoloads.el (source)...
Loading 51speedbar (source)...
Loa...

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I am not the original poster (at least I don't think I am the original poster: I added the note about speedbar
being the culprit). Be that as it may, I no longer have this problem: I'm running 8.04 on all my machines,
I now tend to install from scratch, rather than upgrade, and finally I run emacs 23, built from the CVS emacs
sources. I doubt this helps you very much but it's the best I can do.

hello,

unfortunately I don't really have an Ubuntu system anymore and I
cannot take the time to install one now.
Besides I am not even sure I could reproduce a similar installation.

Anyway, if I come around installing Ubuntu again in a near future, I'd
update my launchpad status.

Regards,

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Andreas Moog <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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