Bug#524483: locales-all: locales installation fails always with "cannot map archive header: Invalid argument"

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

arne anka a écrit :
> Package: locales-all
> Version: 2.9-7
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> installing locales-all or running locle.gen always ends with
> 
> cannot map archive header: Invalid argument
> 
> (which makes the installtion fail, of course) and the loacles are not
> available. since locales did not work, i installed locales-all, led to
> believe by
> "This package contains the precompiled locale data for all supported
> locales." that everything was done -- but not so, the exact same stuff
> happnend (making me ask, what in fact is the meaning of that senetence).
> 

What is the output of ls -al /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive ?

How much space is available in this directory?

What filesystem is it?

Any particular mount option?

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