Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11
Severity: normal
Hi!
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/, *$//
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"
Thanks, please do contact me for further info
jj
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-ck1-dsdt-cp
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_GB.UTF-8)
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.17 Debian configuration
management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11] 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
-- 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
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