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 Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net