Bug#807358: locales: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 62: 31200 Killed (64 Mb RAM)
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On 2015-12-07 22:57, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.19-22
> Severity: important
>
> Unable to install package "locales" or generate locales manually on
> x86 with 64 Mb and plenty of free swap. Output of htop(1):
>
> CPU[||||||| 11.1%] Tasks: 38, 0 thr; 1 running
> Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||29/56MB] Load average: 0.17 2.59 2.14
> Swp[|| 21/760MB] Uptime: 634 days(!), 20:34:35
>
>
> $ locale-gen
> Generating locales (this might take a while)...
> en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 62: 31200 Killed
> localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias $locale
> done
> Generation complete.
>
> System has only en_US.UTF-8 activated:
>
> $ grep -v '#' /etc/locale.gen
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>
> Debug listing:
>
>
> $ sh -x locale-gen
> [...]
> + '[' -f /usr/local/share/i18n/locales/en_US ']'
> + localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8
> /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 62: 31157 Killed localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias $locale
> + :
> + echo ' done'
> done
> [...]
> Killed
>
> Manual try:
>
> $ localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8
> <... time passes>
> Killed
localedef definitely needs more than 64MB of RAM, that said with
760MB swap it should run fine.
If the program gets killed, there is not a lot we can do on the libc
side, that's clearly a problem on your system.
> I don't have possibilities to install any trace tools in this low
> memory system.
I guess you can get some information from the kernel (using dmesg) about
why localedef gets killed. You should also look how the overcommit is
configured on your system:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
Aurelien
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