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.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacsen-common in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368071 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. ---------------------------------------------- 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacsen-common/+bug/1368071/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

