failing localedef

Hi!

Thanks to the now stable USB ethernet, I noticed that I don't have a
working UTF-8 locale on my system (Many "Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not
supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale." warnings in
~/.xsession-errors, programs don't display UTF-8 encoded files).

root_at_hx4700:/# head -n 2 /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 62968 kB
MemFree: 25728 kB
root_at_hx4700:/# ipkg -force-reinstall install locale-base-en-gb
Reinstalling locale-base-en-gb (2.3.5+cvs20050627-r0) on root...
Downloading http://192.168.47.1/feed/locale-base-en-gb_2.3.5+cvs20050627-r0_armv5te.ipk
Configuring locale-base-en-gb
memory exhausted

I think the problem is that localedef, called from
/usr/lib/ipkg/info/locale-base-de-de.postinst,
doesn't get to create /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive:

root_at_hx4700:/# localedef --inputfile=/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB
--charmap=UTF-8 --prefix=/tmp/locale en_GB
memory exhausted

root_at_hx4700:/# /etc/init.d/gpe-dm stop
Stopping GPE display manager: gpe-dm
root_at_hx4700:/# head -n 2 /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 62968 kB
MemFree: 49928 kB

root_at_hx4700:/# localedef --inputfile=/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB
--charmap=UTF-8 --prefix=/ en_GB
Killed

Is my glibc broken? It's 2.3.5+cvs20050627-r0, OE-built with
alexandre's hx4700 patches, /var is on tmpfs and /tmp points to
/var/tmp.

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Philipp