failed to regenerate locale while upgrading from ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

[kasprzol]

localedef would just stop at the first locale and eat 100% of my cpu for a couple of minutes until I killed its parent process to continue with the upgrade (couldn't kill the process itself -- even "sudo kill -9 pid" didn't help). Also the localedef process had a zombie zip (or was it gzip?).

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 3 20:31:31 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 143
Package: locales 2.7.9-4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: langpack-locales
Title: package locales 2.7.9-4 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-15-generic i686

[kasprzol (kasprzol84)]

Looks like it might be a dup of #249340