Re: failing localedef

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pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> 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.

It seems to need little less than 64MB, so sometimes it succeeds, and
sometimes it doesn't. Try to close as much programs as possible and
empty your tmpfses.

regards,

Koen

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> Philipp
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Received on Fri Jul 22 2005 - 16:39:06 EDT