Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
notfound 691606 eglibc/2.13-36 tags 691606 - moreinfo quit Beojan Stanislaus wrote: > strange. I upgraded again and it works now. I think it simply failed to > install correctly the first time around (though why aptitude didn't complain > about this later, I don't now. > > I'm closing this bug.

Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Beojan Stanislaus wrote: > Although (as expected) when booting into recovery mode (the only way I can > login), the syslog output appears on the screen during boot. Ok, perfect. In recovery mode, could you please run set -x . /etc/default/locale dmesg and attach the ou

Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Beojan Stanislaus
> Another alternative would be to take a photograph of the screen when > this happens. How do you know that /etc/default/locales is the cause? > By the way, do you mean /etc/default/locales or /etc/default/locale? > /etc/default/locale (sorry about the confusion) The output, upon boot, is pret

Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Beojan Stanislaus wrote: > On Saturday 27 October 2012 11:56:26 Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Could you try: >> >> set -x >> . /etc/default/locales; # or whatever file reproduces this >> >> and then also attach full "dmesg" output? [...] > Unfortunately not, since, as this bug makes my system unusab

Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Beojan Stanislaus
On Saturday 27 October 2012 11:56:26 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Beojan Stanislaus wrote: > > locale file attached. > > [...] > > > # File generated by update-locale > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > > LANGUAGE="en_GB:en" > > Ok, thanks. I don't see anything objectionable there, so the problem > has to be

Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Beojan Stanislaus wrote: > locale file attached. [...] > # File generated by update-locale > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > LANGUAGE="en_GB:en" Ok, thanks. I don't see anything objectionable there, so the problem has to be somewhere else. Could you try: set -x . /etc/default/locales; # or whatever fi

Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Beojan Stanislaus
> I don't have that file. I do have > > $ grep . /etc/default/locale > # File generated by update-locale > #LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > #LANGUAGE=en:de > > but I suspect you're looking at a different file. Could you attach it? > > Thanks, > Jonathan locale file attached. I tho

Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 691606 + moreinfo # machine-specific severity 691606 important quit Hi, Beojan Stanislaus wrote: > This version of locales causes any script that includes the line > . /etc/default/locales > > to exit with a floating point exception. I don't have that file. I do have $ grep .

Bug#691606: [locales] Causes system to fail to boot with floating point exceptions

2012-10-27 Thread Beojan Stanislaus
Package: locales Version: 2.13-36 Severity: critical --- Please enter the report below this line. --- This version of locales causes any script that includes the line . /etc/default/locales to exit with a floating point exception. Unfortunately, dash shows this as multiple commands within the