Bug#494825: Generating locales failes

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:34:59PM +0200, Christian Lins wrote:
> 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

That's not a bug, your system lacks memory and uses a lot of swap, which
actually render your system unusable.

Either get more memory or use locales-all to avoid compiling the
locales.

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