Bug#240335: locales: Locale installation has to be killed, excessive cpu usage

[Johannes Jordens <j.jordens@ucl.ac.uk>]

Hi!
thanks a lot, for some odd reason my locale.gen file was overridden
everytime apt tried to configure it. So i ended up with several mbs of
worthless data.
I removed the file and a dpkg-reconfigure fixed the rest
thanks again
jj

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 17:16, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:17:19 +0000,
> Johannes Jordens wrote:
> > Since the latest version of locales (2.3.2.ds1-11) I had to kill it
> > whenever apt attempted to install it because CPU usage shot up to 99 %.
> > I know that that is normal during locale-generation, however, locales
> > does not even get to generate the locales, it stays at:
> >
> > Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-11) ...
> >
> > After having let locale "work" at 99 % for 4 hours straight (surely not
> > the intended behaviour), "top" showed:
> >  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > 5675 root      22   0  1420 1420  544 R 99.2  0.2   4:08.80 sed
> >
> > ps axf gives (relevant sections):
> > \_ aptitude
> >  \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --configure locales libgimp1.3 gimp1.3 libglade2-dev
> >   \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postinst configure 2.3.2.ds1-10
> >     \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config configure 2.3.2.ds1-10
> >      \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config configure 2.3.2.ds1-10
> >       \_ sed -e s/,/, /g -e s/, *$//
> 
> Why does your postinst configure 2.3.2.ds1-10?  Apparently something
> is wrong.  Fix your environment in first.
> 
> > Similar errors happened before, but they usually went away with the next
> > version of locales. From the above mentioned programme output I guess
> > sed is the programme causing the problem, the installed version is
> > reported as "GNU sed version 4.0.9"
> >
> > -- debconf information:
> > * locales/default_environment_locale: en_GB.UTF-8
> > * locales/locales_to_be_generated: de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
> 
> 	> LANG=C sed --version
> 	GNU sed version 4.0.9
> 	> dpkg -s locales | grep Version
> 	Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11
> 	> dpkg-reconfigure locales
> 	Generating locales...
> 	  en_GB.UTF-8... done
> 	  ja_JP.EUC-JP... done
> 	  ja_JP.UTF-8... done
> 	  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
> 	  de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done
> 	  de_DE.UTF-8... done
> 	Generation complete.
> 
> Regards,
> -- gotom
-- 
Johannes Jordens <j.jordens@ucl.ac.uk>