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 -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
