On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, mfg8876 wrote:
> The problem almost certainly lies in one of the localedef subroutines and
> is not bound to the underlying kernel (I have tried both downgrading the
> belocs-locale-bin package in 8.04 and updating it on a 7.04 release to no
> avail). Since this is in the gnu c
My script also writes a history log, which says:
2008-08-08,11:02:05+1200 [7651] /usr/bin/localedef --no-archive
--magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
2008-08-08,11:02:07+1200 [7680] /usr/bin/localedef --no-archive
--magic=20051014 -i en_BW -c -f UTF-8 en_BW.UTF-8
2008-08-08,11:02:09
The strace output starts with:
execve("/usr/bin/localedef-real", ["/usr/bin/localedef-real", "--no-
archive", "--magic=20051014", "-i", "en_NZ", "-c", "-f", "UTF-8",
"en_NZ.UTF-8"], [/* 42 vars */])
Adjust to suit the locales you actually have installed.
(I moved /usr/bin/localedef to /usr/bin/l
I think bug #249340 may be related to this one.
I've just run the same version of localedef on 2.6.22-14-generic, where
it runs fine, and on 2.6.22-15-generic, where it hangs.
Here's the output of "strace localedef" immediately before it hung:
1218150691.384821 creat("/usr/lib/locale/en_NZ.utf8/
I've just run the same version of localedef on 2.6.22-14, where it runs
fine, and on 2.6.22-15, where it hangs.
Here's the output of "strace localedef" immediately before it hung:
1218150691.384821 creat("/usr/lib/locale/en_NZ.utf8/LC_CTYPE", 0666) = 3
1218150691.403450 writev(3, [{"\x15\x11\x03\
I'm a bit surprised that noone else seems to be considering how to *fix*
this problem. All I'm hearing are work-arounds for users, which is not
really adequate.
It's pretty clear that there's a kernel bug -- nothing else explains the
"unkillable processes" problem (which I can personally vouch for
My guess is that this is related to Kernel bug #231746
[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231746]
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Gutsy->Hardy upgrade hangs in localedef
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249340
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 231746 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231746
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 231746
kernel crash in iov_iter_advance (caused by nfs-kernel-server)
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Kernel Oops at iov_iter_advance
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238792
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