Bug#231438: locales fails to install due to locale-gen segfault
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.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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