Bug#231438: locales fails to install due to locale-gen segfault
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
Regards,
-- gotom
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