bug#11170: emacs install/upgrade fails

[Paul Roge]

Installation and upgrade of emacs version 23.4+1-2 fails on lemote yeeloong 
(mipsel) machine running debian wheezy. According to conversations on the 
debian mips listserve, David Daney writes: "this is an emacs bug... If you set 
your page size to 4K, emacs would work, but my understanding is that due to 
cache aliasing, loongson cannot work with 4K pages." Below is the output of 
"apt-get install emacs23":

Unpacking emacs23-common (from .../emacs23-common_23.4+1-2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package emacs23-bin-common.
Unpacking emacs23-bin-common (from .../emacs23-bin-common_23.4+1-2_mipsel.deb) 
...
Selecting previously unselected package emacs23.
Unpacking emacs23 (from .../emacs23_23.4+1-2_mipsel.deb) ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in 
`/usr/share/info/xemacs21/emodules.info.gz'
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up emacs23-common (23.4+1-2) ...
Setting up emacs23-bin-common (23.4+1-2) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ctags.emacs23 to provide /usr/bin/ctags 
(ctags) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ebrowse.emacs23 to provide /usr/bin/ebrowse 
(ebrowse) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs23 to provide 
/usr/bin/emacsclient (emacsclient) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/grep-changelog.emacs23 to provide 
/usr/bin/grep-changelog (grep-changelog) in auto mode.
Setting up emacs23 (23.4+1-2) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/emacs23-x to provide /usr/bin/emacs (emacs) 
in auto mode.
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
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs23
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)