On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:35:53PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:45:48PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >>Please tell us, because this is a very serious botch-up which makes > >>Debian almost unusable for non-C-locale users. > > > >This is obviously not true, since the locale warnings you got were > >merely non-failure-causing warnings, and not the source of the error > >... > > I am sorry, but I do not understand what you mean about "non-failure > causing warnings". I simply cannot set the locale (indeed, cannot > install the locales package successfully) on one of my machines > (running testing). > > Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.3.2.ds1-12_all.deb) ... > Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-12) ... > Generating locales... > en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 23102 Killed > localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale > dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 137
That has nothing to do with the original poster's problem. The original poster mentioned some locale-related warnings which weren't fatal; your problems are fatal but entirely different. It looks rather as if locale-gen is running out of memory and being killed by the kernel? Check your syslog. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]