This happened to me after upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 final. But running:
sudo locale-gen --purge en_US en_US.UTF-8 seemed to help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to langpack-locales in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266303 Title: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 243: 5853 Floating point exception(core dumped) Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Running: $ sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 Generating locales... en_US.ISO-8859-1... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 243: 10624 Floating point exception(core dumped) localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias $locale failed en_US.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 243: 10652 Floating point exception(core dumped) localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias $locale failed Generation complete. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: locales 2.13+git20120306-9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jan 5 18:30:08 2014 Dependencies: gcc-4.8-base 4.8.2-10ubuntu2 libc6 2.18-0ubuntu2 libgcc1 1:4.8.2-10ubuntu2 multiarch-support 2.17-93ubuntu4 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-18 (171 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: langpack-locales UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-05 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1266303/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

