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

["arne anka" <debian@ginguppin.de>]

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

ls: cannot access /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive: No such file or directory

> How much space is available in this directory?

df -h /
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                247M  164M   84M  67% /

> What filesystem is it?
> Any particular mount option?

rootfs on / type jffs2 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)

making locale-gen running localedef with --no-archive creates the locales  
defined, but of course not the archive.

the filesystem question is actually quite interesting -- i linked the  
folder to an ext3 formatted sd card

df:
/dev/mmcblk0p2        5.6G  2.5G  2.9G  47% /mnt
mount:
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)

and locale-gen went straight through.
seems, jiffs2 is troublesome, doesn't it?