Hi,

Yes, recreating the directory and appropriate files solves this problem.
I had removed /etc/site-lisp directory. After I reinstalled the
package (the name escapes me now, but it was related with lisp) which
creates this directory, I installed emacs23 again and it worked.
So, basically the problem was I had this lisp package installed, but I
manually removed /etc/site-lisp and I guess emacs23 assumed the
presence of the site-lisp directory and the appropriate files and
crashed when it could not find them.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM, era <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you manually removed some directories, does recreating them (with the
> correct permissions) make things work again?  Which directories exactly
> did you remove?
>
> ** Changed in: emacs23 (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> emacs installation crashes
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498405
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> Status in “emacs23” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: emacs23
>
> I had installed emacs23 before and then when the configuration did not work 
> out, I uninstalled it and removed site-lisp directory manually. When I tried 
> to install emacs23 again, it failed to install.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sat Dec 19 11:35:11 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error 
> exit status 1
> Package: emacs23 23.1+1-4ubuntu5
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-8.12-generic
> SourcePackage: emacs23
> Tags: lucid
> Title: package emacs23 23.1+1-4ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess 
> installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-8-generic i686
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