Package: emacs23 Version: 23.4+1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
apt-get upgrade of emacs23 failed, as did apt-get install. The output from these operations is listed below. I reported the problem first to the debian-mips listserve followed by reporting a bug to emacs (bug#11170). With some guidance, I was able to successfully build and install emacs23 from source with the command ./configure --with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/ && make all && make install. Output from apt-get install emacs23: Setting up emacs23 (23.4+1-2) ... emacs-install emacs23 install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs23 emacs23: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) == 0)' failed. Fatal error (6)Aborted emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 xemacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 2. dpkg: error processing emacs23 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 134 -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (250, 'testing') Architecture: mipsel (mips64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-loongson-2f Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages emacs23 depends on: ii emacs23-bin-common 23.4+1-2 ii gconf-service 3.2.3-4 ii libasound2 1.0.25-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.2.0-2 ii libc6 2.13-27 ii libcairo2 1.10.2-7 ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.18-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.3-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.1-1 ii libgif4 4.1.6-9 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6 ii libgpm2 1.20.4-4 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-1 ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libm17n-0 1.6.3-1 ii libncurses5 5.9-4 ii libotf0 0.9.12-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-3+b1 ii libpng12-0 1.2.47-2 ii librsvg2-2 2.34.2-3 ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2 ii libtiff4 3.9.6-1 ii libtinfo5 5.9-4 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4 ii libxft2 2.2.0-3 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.9-4 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2 emacs23 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs23 suggests: pn emacs23-common-non-dfsg <none> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org