After people experience this hang, could you please check whether you have a kernel oops in dmesg? Bug 291359 points out
Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.934804] localedef[7998]: segfault at 0 ip 000000000043a20e sp 00007fffce59a718 error 4 in localedef[400000+49000] Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.945398] Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-16777216) Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.945409] page pfn = ce9e Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.945410] page->flags = 100000000000068 Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.945412] page->count = 1 Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.945413] page->mapping = 00ff88002989fe01 Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.945434] vma->vm_ops = 0x0 Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.945451] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Oct 31 02:32:51 amd64 kernel: [ 395.945453] kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.27/mm/rmap.c:662! Which is a very probable explanation of localedef hanging. Also, I just switched jaunty to use the localedef program from glibc again (not belocs any more), which is much better maintained. -- localedef crashes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25660 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
