Hi! thanks a lot, for some odd reason my locale.gen file was overridden everytime apt tried to configure it. So i ended up with several mbs of worthless data. I removed the file and a dpkg-reconfigure fixed the rest thanks again jj
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 17:16, GOTO Masanori wrote: > 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 -- Johannes Jordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
