with strace you can see that dd breaks when reading this very file (missing though) :
/usr/share/locale-langpack/<your locale>/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo The bug can be fixed while waiting for a correcting package by creating an empty file for your locale. Example with locale fr : touch /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo -- dd segfaults which it doesn't with the breezy package (on dapper) https://launchpad.net/bugs/36036 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs