I faced the same bug on my AMD64 machine while installing lucid. What is astonishing, that on random occasions the installing process can be finished. After installing and updating todays language pack, this happend and crashed my system (NO switching, NO typing possible)
Syslog excerpt: May 7 12:12:27 xxx [ 5140.569573] localedef[3909]: segfault at 7f9b7f5effc9 ip 00007f9b82e218fd sp 00007fff0f7ca118 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f9b82d9c000+178000] May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.634978] BUG: Bad page state in process localedef pfn:0f164 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.634985] page:ffffea000034cde0 flags:0100000000100008 count:0 mapcount:255 mapping:(null) index:7f780d15c May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.634991] Pid: 3944, comm: localedef Tainted: P 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.634994] Call Trace: May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635004] [<ffffffff810f81a5>] bad_page+0xf5/0x150 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635009] [<ffffffff810fb277>] free_hot_cold_page+0x1e7/0x240 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635015] [<ffffffff8113c9bb>] ? mem_cgroup_update_tree+0x1cb/0x1d0 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635019] [<ffffffff810fb3ad>] free_hot_page+0x2d/0x60 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635024] [<ffffffff810fe00d>] put_page+0x4d/0x180 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635028] [<ffffffff811223fa>] free_page_and_swap_cache+0x2a/0x60 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635032] [<ffffffff81111148>] zap_pte_range+0x388/0x400 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635038] [<ffffffff81058620>] ? finish_task_switch+0x50/0xe0 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635042] [<ffffffff811120b5>] unmap_page_range+0x1c5/0x2a0 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635045] [<ffffffff811128c8>] unmap_vmas+0x178/0x310 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635050] [<ffffffff811172fb>] exit_mmap+0xbb/0x190 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635054] [<ffffffff81064b3d>] mmput+0x4d/0x110 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635058] [<ffffffff8106b112>] exit_mm+0x112/0x150 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635063] [<ffffffff81540c15>] ? _spin_lock_irq+0x15/0x20 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635067] [<ffffffff8106b385>] do_exit+0x125/0x380 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635071] [<ffffffff8106b635>] do_group_exit+0x55/0xd0 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635075] [<ffffffff8106b6c7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 May 7 12:12:29 xxx: [ 5142.635080] [<ffffffff810131b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This bug seems to be present since Ubuntu 8.10 when i first encountered it. Gentoo users observed a similar bug here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214687 ** Bug watch added: Gentoo Bugzilla #214687 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214687 -- Upgrade to Intrepid: kernel crash because of locales https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291359 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs