Bug#231438: locales fails to install due to locale-gen segfault
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:07:09PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:19:59 -0600,
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 18:34:53 +0900, GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> said:
> >
> > > At Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:30:39 -0500,
> > > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:23:01AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > >> > Package: locales Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11 Severity: grave
> > >> >
> > >> > Justification: The package fails to install, and causes dictd
> > >> > to also fail to install, amongst others.
> > >>
> > >> > Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
> > >>
> > >> Any interesting kernel patches? Pax has been reported to have this
> > >> effect. I generated a larger list of locales when installing -11
> > >> and -12 without trouble.
> >
> > > Or memory shortage? Anyway, check your environment.
> >
> > Oh, no, it was not memory shortage. I have 94MB ram and 996Mb
> > swap free.
> >
> > At this point, from discussions on IRC, I would tend to
> > suspect exec-shield. I'll try compiling a kernel without exec-shield
> > to confirm.
>
> localedef uses trampoline in its internal; it may conflict with
> exec-shield like pax, please see:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=198099
Hmm, Red Hat _must_ have a patch for that by now....
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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