I realised that the .elc files were compiled at install time because they didn't appear when I did dpkg --listfiles emacsen-common. I have about 65G of disk space left on / (which includes /usr), and it's an xfs filesystem.
I'll try to do a re0install later today. .....Ron On 6/11/26 7:29 PM, David Bremner <[email protected]> wrote:
Control: tag -1 unreproducible Control: severity -1 important Ron Murray <[email protected]> writes: > An emacs update to testing arrived this morning, and in > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, I found this: > >> root:~# ll /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian* >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jun 10 11:22 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el -> ../../emacsen-common/debian-startup.el >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 10 11:22 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc > > Looks like the two were installed at the same time, but the second one > is bogus, and it prevents the real one from being loaded. > > Soled by renaming the bogus file (debian-startup.elc). The .elc files are generated at install time, not actually shipped in the package. It would be helpful to know about any messages during the install of emacsen-common, and whether you can duplicate the problem by re-installing the package. BTW, do you have lots of disk space in /usr? What filesystem is it? d
