Public bug reported: On Karmic, I have emacs-snapshot installed. Installing jde fails due to eieio configuration failing on byte compiling:
Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 7 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up eieio (1:1.0pre4-3) ... install/cedet-common: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs-snapshot Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-autogen.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-compat.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-edebug.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-files.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-load.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/ezimage.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/fame.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/inversion.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/mode-local.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/pprint.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/sformat.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/working.elc install/eieio: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs-snapshot In toplevel form: chart.el:166:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer In toplevel form: eieio-base.el:56:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/eieio/eieio-comp.elc In toplevel form: eieio-custom.el:323:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/eieio/eieio-doc.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/eieio/eieio-load.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/eieio/eieio-opt.elc In toplevel form: eieio-speedbar.el:197:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer In toplevel form: eieio-test-methodinvoke.el:78:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer In toplevel form: eieio.el:1949:39:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer In toplevel form: linemark.el:243:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/eieio emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 2. dpkg: error processing eieio (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ede: ede depends on eieio (>= 1:1.0pre4-3); however: Package eieio is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ede (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of semantic: semantic depends on ede; however: Package ede is not configured yet. semantic depends on eieio (>= 1:1.0pre4-3); however: Package eieio is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing semantic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cedet-contrib: cedet-contrib depends on semantic (>= 1:1.0pre4-3); however: Package semantic is not confiNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already gured yet. dpkg: error processing cedet-contrib (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cogre: cogre depends on semantic (>= 1:1.0pre4-3); however: Package semantic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing cogre (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ecb: ecb depends on eieio (>= 1.1); however: Package eieio is not configured yet. ecb depends on semantic (>= 1.1); however: Package semantic is not configured yet. ecb depends on cedet-contrib (>= 1.1); however: Package cedet-contrib is not configured yet. ecb depends on cogre (>= 1.1); however: Package cogre is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ecb (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of jde: jde depends on cedet-contrib (>= 1:1.0pre4-2); however: Package cedet-contrib is not configured yet. jde depends on cogre (>= 1:1.0pre4-2); however: Package cogre is not configured yet. jde depends on eieio (>= 1:1.0pre4-2); however: Package eieio is not configured yet. jde depends on semantic (>= 1:1.0pre4-2); however: Package semantic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing jde (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: eieio ede semantic cedet-contrib cogre ecb jde E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Sep 29 16:21:31 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: eieio 1:1.0pre4-3 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic SourcePackage: cedet Tags: ubuntu-unr Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 ** Affects: cedet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 ubuntu-unr -- Byte-compilation fails, uninstallable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438696 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs