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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Beojan Stanislaus wrote:
> On Saturday 27 October 2012 11:56:26 Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Could you try:
>>
>>  set -x
>>  . /etc/default/locales; # or whatever file reproduces this
>>
>> and then also attach full "dmesg" output?
[...]
> Unfortunately not, since, as this bug makes my system unusable, I have 
> downgraded the locales package alone to 2.13-35 from wheezy.

Perhaps in a chroot or in the live environment from a live cd?
Without these logs, it's hard to see how to track this down further.

> 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.

Another alternative would be to take a photograph of the screen when
this happens.  How do you know that /etc/default/locales is the cause?
By the way, do you mean /etc/default/locales or /etc/default/locale?

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

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan