locale-gen error (solved) sort of

bigbob73 · 2006-07-27 16:27:18

I am getting the following error using locale-gen...

[root@mauller obmenu-1.0]# locale-gen
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 2780 Segmentation fault localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias $locale

the only ones i un-commented in /etc/locale.gen are the en-us ones. any thoughts on this one?

bigbob73 · 2006-07-28 15:21:52

just some more info here, locale -a gives me

[root@mauller bob]# locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX

T-Dawg · 2006-07-28 20:53:45

try reinstalling glibc.

bigbob73 · 2006-07-28 23:10:51

Penguin wrote:

try reinstalling glibc.

Thanks! it was a new install from another distro, so i did it this time from the cd. this time everything worked, so i'm rockin again.

T-Dawg · 2006-07-28 23:15:34

Make sure you update your entire system then with pacman -Syu

bigbob73 · 2006-07-28 23:37:05

Penguin wrote:

Make sure you update your entire system then with pacman -Syu

I'll do it now, thanks.

funkyou · 2006-08-02 10:16:49

Hey, i have the same problem.
When i enter "locale-gen" i get the following error message:

sudo locale-gen
Generating locales...
  de_DE.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 16536 Segmentation fault      localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias $locale

reinstalling glibc and/or updating with "pacman -Suy" did not solve
my problem...

So, what can i do now?

JGC · 2006-08-02 11:17:41

What does ldd /usr/bin/localedef show?

funkyou · 2006-08-02 11:55:32

Thx for your answer. It works now, although i do not know why...
I just did a reboot...

Anyway, here is the output:

ldd /usr/bin/localedef
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7df9000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f32000)

bigbob73 · 2006-08-02 14:00:00

funkyou wrote:

Hey, i have the same problem.
When i enter "locale-gen" i get the following error message:
sudo locale-gen
Generating locales...
  de_DE.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 16536 Segmentation fault      localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias $locale
reinstalling glibc and/or updating with "pacman -Suy" did not solve
my problem...
So, what can i do now?

what kernel are you using?

onearm · 2006-11-20 10:28:43

Sorry for responding to an old thread, but I have exactly the same problem of funkyou after having updated glibc to 2.5.2

locale-gen
Generating locales...
  it_IT.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41:  7650 Segmentation fault      localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias $locale

ldd /usr/bin/localedef
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0064e000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x002d9000)

localedef -i it_IT -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias it_IT.UTF-8
Segmentation fault

Not sure if the above command is correct.

locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX

I've this in locale.gen (but even commenting or uncommenting other locales, it segfaults anyway)

cat /etc/locale.gen | grep '^[^#]'
it_IT.UTF-8     UTF-8
it_IT   ISO-8859-1
it_IT@euro      ISO-8859-15

I've already tried reinstalling glibc and rebooted a couple of times without any luck. Any idea?

wain · 2006-11-20 10:46:15

I have already had the same problem in the past.
The solution for me was:
- boot on a livecd
- mount archlinux partition
- chroot /mnt/archpartition
- pacman -Rd glibc
- pacman.static -S glibc

onearm · 2006-11-20 14:22:18

It didn't work. locale-gen still segfaults.
Any other suggestions (apart reverting to an older glibc)?

nightfrost · 2006-11-20 16:13:26

I have the exact same problem as of glibc 2.5-2...

shamrok · 2006-11-21 14:35:59

Same problem here.

funkyou · 2006-11-21 19:30:02

Same problem again...

I'll try the fixes mentioned here...

-edit- tried all mentioned fixes but the problem persists...

$ locale-gen
Generating locales...
  de_DE.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41:  5726 Segmentation fault      localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias $locale

$ ldd /usr/bin/localedef
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fef000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00acc000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00f6d000)

/etc/locale.gen:
de_DE.UTF-8     UTF-8

nightfrost · 2006-11-21 21:38:53

my problem was fixed after a reboot... weird this :?

funkyou · 2006-11-21 21:58:07

i have now tried *everything* mentioned here and on various other sources and i also installed the older glibc-2.4 package, but i am getting only segfaults...

now i have found a very weird "solution" for this... i backed up my /usr/bin/localedef and got the "localedef" binary from an ubuntu system, and with this binary in /usr/bin my locales finally work...

well, should i file a bug report about this??? my system is pretty standard with no modifications except the emission kernel and a modified kde/qt installation...

JGC · 2006-11-22 00:11:23

What kernel are you using?

funkyou · 2006-11-22 00:21:58

$ uname -a
Linux agentj 2.6.18-emission #1 PREEMPT Tue Nov 21 22:11:23 CET 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

i even rebuilt the kernel to check out if thats causing anything, but no luck...

onearm · 2006-11-22 08:30:50

funkyou wrote:

$ uname -a
Linux agentj 2.6.18-emission #1 PREEMPT Tue Nov 21 22:11:23 CET 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

I have the same kernel and can confirm that even with the vanilla one locale-gen segfaults

shamrok · 2006-11-22 08:36:08

I also have emission1.

nightfrost · 2006-11-22 13:48:52

interesting. I had emission a while ago (during and immediately after the upgrade of glibc), but switched to a modified ck-kernel shortly after upgrading. Perhaps that's what fixed the problem for me :?

onearm · 2006-11-24 09:00:48

How strange, I got it working by running locale-gen with a recompiled 2.6.17-beyond. Could it be that there is a bug in latest glibc with 2.6.18* kernels?

JGC · 2006-11-24 16:55:56

I googled around for a while and all I could find where bugreports about grsecurity/PaX-related things. When working with nonexecutable pages in the grsecurity case, GCC trampoline emulation has to be enabled because otherwise localedef will segfault.

I think it's just a combination of things: we optimize our glibc using -march=i686 -O2 -pipe, my guess is that we should just keep the -march=i686 and leave the -O parameter out. This might be a problem with over-optimization, which can happen with a complex thing like glibc.

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locale-gen error (solved) sort of

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Re: locale-gen error (solved) sort of

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Re: locale-gen error (solved) sort of

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Re: locale-gen error (solved) sort of

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Re: locale-gen error (solved) sort of

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Re: locale-gen error (solved) sort of

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