Bug#304604: locales: Upgrading fails

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

At Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:18:50 +0200,
Gabor Gombas wrote:
> Trying to upgrade to 2.3.4-3 gives the following error:
> 
> Setting up locales (2.3.4-3) ...
> Generating locales...
>   en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
>   en_US.ISO-8859-15... done
>   en_US.UTF-8... done
>   hu_HU.ISO-8859-2... done
>   hu_HU.UTF-8... done
> Generation complete.
> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08781408 ***
> dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  locales
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Could you track this installation process in detail and clear which
binary did this error cause?

It seems locales setup was done sanely, however other binary might be
crashed by double free or something.  It might be the bug of non glibc
binaries.  Please recheck with your environment.

strace, or process accounting could be useful for tracking executed
binaries.

Regards,
-- gotom