Bug#307322: marked as done (locales: locale-gen segfaults on upgrade)
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From: Joseph Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net>
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Subject: locales: locale-gen segfaults on upgrade
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Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-21
Severity: serious
When upgrading my testing installation, locale-gen segfaulted which
breaks the locale configuration of the system. Here is the output I have:
Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-21) ...
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 17480 Segmentation fault localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I tried to rerun the process, but it didn't work:
joe@dot:~$ sudo dpkg --configure locales
Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-21) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 17665 Segmentation fault localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
locales
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2um
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.2.ds1-21] 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_US.UTF-8
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, he_IL.UTF-8 UTF-8
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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
To: Joseph Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net>
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Subject: Re: Bug#307322: locales: locale-gen segfaults on upgrade
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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:14:40AM +0000, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:45:11PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> >=20
> > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:50:08PM +0000, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> > > When upgrading my testing installation, locale-gen segfaulted which
> > > breaks the locale configuration of the system. Here is the output I =
have:
> >=20
> > > Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-21) ...
> > > Generating locales...
> > > en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 17480 Segmentation fau=
lt localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale
> > > dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
> > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> >=20
> > This error doesn't seem to be widely reproducible. Can you provide a
> > backtrace from the command=20
> >=20
> > localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /etc/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8
> >=20
> > on this system?
> Certainly, here you go:
> root@dot:~# gdb --args localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /etc/locale.alia=
s en_US.UTF-8
> GNU gdb 6.3-debian
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditi=
ons.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
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s.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /etc/locale.=
alias en_US.UTF-8
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x4009356b in memset () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x4009356b in memset () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1 0x4008f790 in mcheck_check_all () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2 0x4008d75c in calloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #3 0x08087b8b in ?? ()
> #4 0x00083afe in ?? ()
> #5 0x00000014 in ?? ()
> #6 0x40815020 in ?? ()
> #7 0xbffff804 in ?? ()
> #8 0x08087766 in ?? ()
> #9 0x00083afe in ?? ()
> #10 0x00000014 in ?? ()
> #11 0xffffff93 in ?? ()
> #12 0x40049571 in __strtoul_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
> Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> (gdb)=20
> Hmm, seems to be a memory issue. This is just a hosted LVS with a
> paltry amount of memory (64 MB), let's try adding some more swap...
> root@dot:/usr/local# dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Dswapfile bs=3D1024 count=3D64k
> 65536+0 records in
> 65536+0 records out
> 67108864 bytes transferred in 13.894189 seconds (4829995 bytes/sec)
> root@dot:/usr/local# mkswap swapfile
> Setting up swapspace version 1, size =3D 67104 kB
> root@dot:/usr/local# swapon swapfile
> root@dot:/usr/local# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 60500 56040 4460 0 2712 15844
> -/+ buffers/cache: 37484 23016
> Swap: 131056 53692 77364
> Survey says...
> root@dot:~# dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-21) ...
> Generating locales...
> en_US.UTF-8... done
> he_IL.UTF-8... done
> Generation complete.
> That did the trick! Thanks for the pointer and my apologies for the
> nuisance, I should've figured this out on my own...
Ok, so not really a locales bug at all. Closing.
Thanks,
--=20
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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