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Bug #698813 [emacsen-common] "Too many levels of symbolic links" on upgrade
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Ian Zimmerman writes:
> Yes, that is quite possible. For a while I maintained my own emacs
> package while I waited for the Gnome dependencies in the official ones
> to get sorted out. I also have a number of personal Lisp packages and
> some of them are a bit old
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:42:14 -0600
Rob Browning wrote:
Rob> Any chance you might have installed some "unofficial" emacs package
Rob> that might have tried to use the "emacs" flavor for itself?
Yes, that is quite possible. For a while I maintained my own emacs
package while I waited for the Gnom
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> Looks to me like /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common
> is where it happens. It is probably called with $FLAVOR set in turn to
> each file name in /var/lib/emacsen-common/state/flavor/installed, and as
> I say in the other subthread, somehow that direct
On 2013-01-23, Rob Browning wrote:
> Antoine Beaupré writes:
>
>> anarcat@angela:~$ ls -ald /etc/emacs*
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 jan 22 19:16 /etc/emacs
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 oct 3 10:43 /etc/emacs23 -> /etc/emacs/
>>
>> So yeah, this is a symlink pointing to itself... Not sure how
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:05:12 -0600
Rob Browning wrote:
Rob> So are you saying that emacsen-common somehow created the
Rob> problematic symlink?
Hell yeah. Sorry if that wasn't clear. The first thing I did before
anything else was removing the links by hand (with rm), then I unpacked
the emacse
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:17:57 -0600
> Rob Browning wrote:
>
> Ian> "The relevant information" is indeed there - but there is a
> Ian> subdirectory "emacs" as well as one for the specific flavor
> Ian> (emacs23 in this case). The machinery looks at the directory and
> Ian>
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:17:57 -0600
Rob Browning wrote:
Ian> "The relevant information" is indeed there - but there is a
Ian> subdirectory "emacs" as well as one for the specific flavor
Ian> (emacs23 in this case). The machinery looks at the directory and
Ian> thinks "emacs" is one of the flavors
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:09:36 -0800
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Ian> No, it happens to me too and I am certain I never messed with these
Ian> directories manually.
Ian>
Ian> I think I know what the problem is. Look at #695501.
Ian>
Ian> "The relevant information" is indeed there - but there is a
Ian>
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> "The relevant information" is indeed there - but there is a subdirectory
> "emacs" as well as one for the specific flavor (emacs23 in this case).
> The machinery looks at the directory and thinks "emacs" is one of the
> flavors that must be handled.
Which machinery do you
Antoine Beaupré writes:
> anarcat@angela:~$ ls -ald /etc/emacs*
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 jan 22 19:16 /etc/emacs
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 oct 3 10:43 /etc/emacs23 -> /etc/emacs/
>
> So yeah, this is a symlink pointing to itself... Not sure how I managed
> that one, but I don't remember
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:29:27 -0800
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Antoine> It looks like I may have created the 'emacs23' symlink 4 months
Antoine> ago - I suspect something broke back then and this was the
Antoine> workaround I found.
Ian> No, it happens to me too and I am certain I never messed with the
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> Antoine Beaupré :
>
>> It looks like I may have created the 'emacs23' symlink 4 months ago -
>> I suspect something broke back then and this was the workaround I
>> found.
>
> No, it happens to me too and I am certain I never messed with these
> directories manually.
Not
Antoine Beaupré :
> It looks like I may have created the 'emacs23' symlink 4 months ago -
> I suspect something broke back then and this was the workaround I
> found.
No, it happens to me too and I am certain I never messed with these
directories manually.
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Ian Zimmerman
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Package: emacsen-common
Version: 2.0.5
Severity: grave
I get this trying to upgrade from 2.0.3 to 2.0.5:
Setting up emacsen-common (2.0.5) ...
Install emacsen-common for emacs23
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs23
>>Error occurred processing /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/00debi
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