Bug#807358: locales: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 62: 31200 Killed (64 Mb RAM)
On 2015-12-08 09:41, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>
> 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
Any news on that? Can you provide the output of dmesg?
Aurelien
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