If you understand what's wrong could you briefly summarize? If not, a quick and dirty translation of the most relevant error messages would help more people try to analyze what happened. Your latest comment sounds vaguely like this is a duplicate of an existing issue; have you checked for duplicate reports?
-- 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/1222183 Title: package emacsen-common 2.0.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Status in emacsen-common package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ugrade from 12.10 to 13.04 Setting up emacsen-common (2.0.3) ... Install emacsen-common for xemacs21 emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor xemacs21 /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common: 29: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common: xemacs21: not found ERROR: install script from emacsen-common package failed dpkg: error processing emacsen-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cmake-data: cmake-data depends on emacsen-common; however: Package emacsen-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing cmake-data (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cmake: cmake depends on cmake-data (= 2.8.9-0ubuntu1); however: Package cmake-data is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing cmake (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xemacs21-nomule: xemacs21-nomule depends on emacsen-common; however: Package emacsen-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xemacs21-nomule (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xemacs21: xemacs21 depends on xemacs21-mule (>= 21.4.22-3.2ubuntu2) | xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn (>= 21.4.22-3.2ubuntu2) | xemacs21-nomule (>= 21.4.22-3.2ubuntu2); however: Package xeNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already macs21-mule is not installed. Package xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn is not installed. Package xemacs21-nomule is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xemacs21 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xemacs21-support: xemacs21-support depends on emacsen-common; however: Package emacsen-common is not configured yet. xemacs21-support depends on xemacs21 (= 21.4.22-3.2ubuntu2); however: Package xemacs21 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xemacs21-support (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xemacs21-bin: xemacs21-bin depends on xemacs21-support (= 21.4.22-3.2ubuntu2); however: Package xemacs21-support is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xemacs21-bin (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: emacsen-common cmake-data cmake xemacs21-nomule xemacs21 xemacs21-support xemacs21-bin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: emacsen-common 2.0.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-40.62-generic 3.5.7.20 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-40-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Sep 7 17:21:48 2013 Dependencies: DuplicateSignature: package:emacsen-common:2.0.3:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-16 (21 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130213) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: emacsen-common Title: package emacsen-common 2.0.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-09-07 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacsen-common/+bug/1222183/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp