Bug#494825: Generating locales failes

[Christian Lins <christian.lins@web.de>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.7-10
Severity: important
Tags: l10n

I had some ugly Perl warnings and tried to regenerate locales to get 
rid of this warnings.
But this reproducably failes with:

Generating locales (this may take a while)...
  de_DE.UTF-8...Hangup

Then the SSH-Sessions is unusable whereas the system as a whole is 
unaffected.
The syslog says that the kernel killed process due to lack of memory.

Phys. Memory: 32 MiB
Swap: ~280 MiB

I found someone who had a similar problem: 
http://osdir.com/ml/debian.ports.arm/2006-03/msg00002.html

Reinstalling locales produces the same result.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm (armv5tel)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-ixp4xx
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.7-1]           2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

locales recommends no packages.