Package: emacsen-common
Version: 3.0.8
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
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Emacs would not start up, giving a
"Symbol's function definition is void: debian-startup" error.
While searching for the problem, discovered
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26870976/emacs-startup-symbols-function-definition-is-void-debian-startup,
which, while not dealing with the real cause, helped with the
solution.
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).
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 7.0.12.khufu (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
- -- no debconf information
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