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belocs-locales-bin package

upgrade to 8.04 stalls at terminal,generating locales en au.utf-8...

Bug #255075 reported by joe nowicki on 2008-08-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #249340: Gutsy->Hardy upgrade hangs in localedef. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	belocs-locales-bin (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

twice tried to upgrade 7.10 to 8.04,download stops at terminal,generating locales en au.utf-8---

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 5 13:58:01 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-15-generic i686

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joe nowicki (jjoeandjo) wrote on 2008-08-05:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (20.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (665 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2008-08-05:

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as attachments? Thanks in advance.

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mrojasaquino (mrojasaquino) wrote on 2008-08-05:

my "/var/log/dist-upgrade" Edit (123.1 KiB, application/zip)

Same for me.

We've tried to upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 and stalls in the "generating locales en au.utf-8" message, in two computers. this seems to be a recent problem, as i've upgraded my laptop from 7.10 to 8.04 about two or three months ago and there were no problem at all.

I'm attaching the last /var/log/dist-upgrade from one of the computers.

Cheers.

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virtual_spirit (xx-virtual-spirit-xx) wrote on 2008-08-06:

I had the same problem yesterday.

I can't attache my /var/log/dist-upgrade beceause I have formating.

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arnn (johan-windh) wrote on 2008-08-06:

I have the same problem. The "localedef" process is currently stuck using 100% CPU and upgrade stalled. Any tip on how I should proceed? Need the system to be usable ASAP so should I try kill the localedef process or do something else?

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arnn (johan-windh) wrote on 2008-08-06:

So a sudo:ed kill -9 on the process has no effect what so ever...

Here is the ps output of the process that causes the problem:

root 8122 99.6 5.2 55264 53852 pts/0 R+ 14:25 45:18 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8

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arnn (johan-windh) wrote on 2008-08-06:

I killed the /usr/sbin/locale-gen script that invoked the localedef command and this caused the upgrade to continue but with some "Coud not install package <blabla> dependency problem - leaving unconfigured" messages.

I had to kill this script about 3 more times. The upgrade continued to the end where it detected that something was wrong then tried to revert/recover. This resulted install of some version of the locales package (again it stalled, so I had to kill it) then the update manager quit.

I rebooted and everything started without any error messages. I logged in and it says I am running 8.04, package manager/update manager says everything is up to date.

Did a reinstall of the locales package (this time it worked) causing some of the packages that failed previously with dependency problem to be installed.

So far everything seems to be working.

Cheers.

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2008-08-11

Changed in update-manager:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Incomplete → Triaged

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billynoah (billynoah) wrote on 2008-08-14:

arnn: thank you so much! and thank god i had another computer handy to read your post as my upgrade stalled. i had exactly the same experience.. killed the locale-gen process three times, restarted and reinstalled the locales package and everything was dandy. let's hope others have the good fortune to read this if they run into the same problem. cheer!

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joe nowicki (jjoeandjo) wrote on 2008-10-07:

DELL REPLACED TOWER AS HARDWARE PROBLEMS EXISTED.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2008-10-08:

#10

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 249340 and is being marked as such. Additionally, that bug has been resolved with an update in Gutsy's kernel so you should be able to upgrade now. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.