Bug#247223: locale-gen gets killed

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

tags 247223 woody
thanks

At Mon, 03 May 2004 13:00:37 +0200,
tic@tictric.net <tic@tictric.net> wrote:
> I know this has been on the list before and I hope it's not a superfluous  
> report but it just won't work :-)
> 
> Generating locales fails with
> 
> Generating locales...
>    de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 22:  3347 Killed
>   localedef -i $input -c -f $charset $locale
>   done
> Generation complete.
> 
> 
> In kern.log I find the following:
> 
> attempted resource overstep by requesting 4096 for RLIMIT_CORE against  
> limit 0 by /usr/bin/localedef[localedef:3347]uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0,  
> parent /usr/sbin/locale-gen[locale-gen:3330] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0

I recommend to use google for this problem.

	http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?t=321&highlight=attempted+resource+overstep+rlimitcore

describes: this error log said you use grsecurity patch, and
locale-gen got killed by signal, and you set corefilesize limit to 0,
so corefile was not generated.

> I did try to find out what _line 22_ it's complaining about but I failed.
> If there's already a fix available I'd be glad to learn about it.

Line 22 is the end of the seaquence of this shell script.  In this
while loop, I guess locale-def, it got signal.

Localedef used trampoline, so that might make problems:

	http://lists.virus.org/grsec-0312/msg00016.html

Regards,
-- gotom