At Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:17:19 +0000, Johannes Jordens wrote: > Since the latest version of locales (2.3.2.ds1-11) I had to kill it > whenever apt attempted to install it because CPU usage shot up to 99 %. > I know that that is normal during locale-generation, however, locales > does not even get to generate the locales, it stays at: > > Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-11) ... > > After having let locale "work" at 99 % for 4 hours straight (surely not > the intended behaviour), "top" showed: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 5675 root 22 0 1420 1420 544 R 99.2 0.2 4:08.80 sed > > ps axf gives (relevant sections): > \_ aptitude > \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --configure locales libgimp1.3 gimp1.3 libglade2-dev > \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend > /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postinst configure 2.3.2.ds1-10 > \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config configure 2.3.2.ds1-10 > \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config configure 2.3.2.ds1-10 > \_ sed -e s/,/, /g -e s/, *$//
Why does your postinst configure 2.3.2.ds1-10? Apparently something is wrong. Fix your environment in first. > Similar errors happened before, but they usually went away with the next > version of locales. From the above mentioned programme output I guess > sed is the programme causing the problem, the installed version is > reported as "GNU sed version 4.0.9" > > -- debconf information: > * locales/default_environment_locale: en_GB.UTF-8 > * locales/locales_to_be_generated: de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 > LANG=C sed --version GNU sed version 4.0.9 > dpkg -s locales | grep Version Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11 > dpkg-reconfigure locales Generating locales... en_GB.UTF-8... done ja_JP.EUC-JP... done ja_JP.UTF-8... done en_US.ISO-8859-1... done de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done de_DE.UTF-8... done Generation complete. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]