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langpack-locales package

package locales 2.7.9-4 failed to install/upgrade:

Bug #249027 reported by jlms on 2008-07-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #249340: Gutsy->Hardy upgrade hangs in localedef. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	langpack-locales (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

This happens after upgrading...

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 16 13:19:50 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 137
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: locales 2.7.9-4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: langpack-locales
Title: package locales 2.7.9-4 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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jlms (jjllmmss) wrote on 2008-07-16:

Dependencies.txt Edit (314 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (13.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (44.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (10.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (45.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Eric Walstad (ewalstad) wrote on 2008-08-02:

Received this error on upgrading to Heron.
See also bug #249953

I did the following in the shell to get the upgrade to continue:

22370 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen
22384 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen
22419 pts/0 R+ 3:11 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 e
22420 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 [gzip] <defunct>
sudo kill -15 22370 22384 22419

... later the upgrader stalled again ...
2665 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
2679 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
22419 pts/0 R+ 9:43 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 e
22420 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 [gzip] <defunct>
sudo kill -15 2665 2679 22419

... later the upgrader stalled again ...
4057 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
4070 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
2708 pts/0 D+ 0:01 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
4099 pts/0 D+ 0:01 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
22419 pts/0 R+ 14:27 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
sudo kill -15 2708 4057 4070 4099 22419