Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

[Beojan Stanislaus <beojan@lavabit.com>]

On Saturday 27 October 2012 11:56:26 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Beojan Stanislaus wrote:
> > locale file attached.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > #  File generated by update-locale
> > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
> 
> Ok, thanks.  I don't see anything objectionable there, so the problem
> has to be somewhere else.
> 
> Could you try:
> 
>  set -x
>  . /etc/default/locales; # or whatever file reproduces this
> 
> and then also attach full "dmesg" output?
> 
> Sorry for the trouble, and hope that helps,
> Jonathan

Unfortunately not, since, as this bug makes my system unusable, I have 
downgraded the locales package alone to 2.13-35 from wheezy.

2.13-36 makes the system fail to boot, as I mentioned in the original report, 
since the scripts calling . /etc/default/locales; are the init scripts in 
/etc/init.d. As a result I am unable to test your suggestion.

However, I can add that calling update-locale with the faulty package causes 
the same floating point exception message.