Ok, I have some news: 1. I finally checked my BIOS revision and -- sigh! --- updated it to the latest version (N4D623-3) This is best done with WinFlash (awdflash under syslinux and freedos did not work properly)
2. Afterwards I cleared CMOS and loaded optimized defaults. 3. I have gathered the recent update of libglibc. The command: sudo strace locale-gen worked as you can see below: rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [CHLD], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [CHLD], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x442510, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7efff92b6af0}, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7efff92b6af0}, 8) = 0 wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 1803 wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 1804 wait4(-1, en_AG.UTF-8... done en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NG.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... done en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 1805 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7efff92b6af0}, {0x442510, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7efff92b6af0}, 8) = 0 close(4) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- wait4(-1, 0x7fff2ae21d1c, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) rt_sigreturn(0xffffffffffffffff) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 read(255, "echo \"Generation complete.\"\n", 6425) = 28 write(1, "Generation complete.\n", 21Generation complete. ) = 21 -- Upgrade to Intrepid: kernel crash because of locales https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291359 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs