Furthermore, this seems to have been caused by xemacs21 which I believe
is no longer supported on Ubuntu.

Setting up emacsen-common (2.0.7) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/emacs/site-start.el ...
Install emacsen-common for xemacs21
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor xemacs21

WARNING:
Couldn't find obvious defaults for:
data-directory
mule-lisp-directory
lisp-directory
Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable,
/usr/bin/xemacs21
is in a strange place?Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup...
Loading 00debian...
Error while loading 00debian: Symbol's function definition is void: loop
Loading 00debian-vars...
Loading 50dictionaries-common...
Error while loading 50dictionaries-common: No /usr/local/ prefixed paths in 
load-path
Symbol's function definition is void: dolist
xemacs exiting
.
ERROR: install script from emacsen-common package failed
dpkg: error processing package emacsen-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

(Copy/paste from VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz line 13445f.)

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Title:
  package emacsen-common 2.0.7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
  installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Status in emacsen-common package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I got this meesage while upgrading from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04:

  Could not install 'emacsen-common'

  The upgrade will continue but the 'emacsen-common' package may not be in a 
worki
  ng state. Please consider submitting a bug report about it.

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  I also got this message at about the same time, bu it may be a
  separate problem:

  A problem occured during the clean-up. Please see the below message for more 
inf
  ormation. 

  installArchives() failed

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: emacsen-common 2.0.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 11 08:16:50 2014
  Dependencies:
   
  DuplicateSignature: package:emacsen-common:2.0.7:subprocess installed 
post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error 
exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-16 (663 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 
(20120425)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: emacsen-common
  Title: package emacsen-common 2.0.7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess 
installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-11 (0 days ago)

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