[Bug 1768877] Re: localedef assert failure: malloc(): memory corruption

Thu May 3 18:58:01 UTC 2018

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Title:
  localedef assert failure: malloc(): memory corruption

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When running locale-gen after a vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 installation this
  error appears. Any locale can not be created or generated.

  This was the first occurrence of this bug:

  root at knlf1:~# apt install language-pack-br
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following additional packages will be installed:
    language-pack-br-base
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    language-pack-br language-pack-br-base
  0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 81.8 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 321 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
  Get:1 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 language-pack-br-base all 1:18.04+20180423 [79.9 kB]
  Get:2 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 language-pack-br all 1:18.04+20180423 [1892 B]
  Fetched 81.8 kB in 0s (928 kB/s)           
  perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
  perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  	LANGUAGE = (unset),
  	LC_ALL = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
  	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
      are supported and installed on your system.
  perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
  locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
  locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
  locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
  Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-br-base.
  (Reading database ... 58623 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../language-pack-br-base_1%3a18.04+20180423_all.deb ...
  Unpacking language-pack-br-base (1:18.04+20180423) ...
  Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-br.
  Preparing to unpack .../language-pack-br_1%3a18.04+20180423_all.deb ...
  Unpacking language-pack-br (1:18.04+20180423) ...
  Setting up language-pack-br (1:18.04+20180423) ...
  Setting up language-pack-br-base (1:18.04+20180423) ...
  /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (pt_BR.UTF-8)
  Generating locales (this might take a while)...
    br_FR.UTF-8...malloc(): memory corruption
  /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 177:  3257 Aborted                 localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias $locale
   done
  Generation complete.

  -------------------
  This is another one:

  root at knlf1:~# apt install language-pack-pt
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following additional packages will be installed:
    language-pack-pt-base
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    language-pack-pt language-pack-pt-base
  0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 2570 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 12.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
  Get:1 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 language-pack-pt-base all 1:18.04+20180423 [2568 kB]
  Get:2 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 language-pack-pt all 1:18.04+20180423 [1896 B]
  Fetched 2570 kB in 0s (9185 kB/s)          
  perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
  perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  	LANGUAGE = (unset),
  	LC_ALL = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
  	LANG = "pt_BR.UTF-8"
      are supported and installed on your system.
  perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
  locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
  locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
  locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
  Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-pt-base.
  (Reading database ... 62304 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../language-pack-pt-base_1%3a18.04+20180423_all.deb ...
  Unpacking language-pack-pt-base (1:18.04+20180423) ...
  Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-pt.
  Preparing to unpack .../language-pack-pt_1%3a18.04+20180423_all.deb ...
  Unpacking language-pack-pt (1:18.04+20180423) ...
  Setting up language-pack-pt (1:18.04+20180423) ...
  Setting up language-pack-pt-base (1:18.04+20180423) ...
  /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (pt_BR.UTF-8)
  Generating locales (this might take a while)...
    pt_BR.UTF-8...malloc(): memory corruption
  /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 177:  6523 Aborted                 (core dumped) localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias $locale
   done
    pt_PT.UTF-8...malloc(): memory corruption
  /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 177:  6540 Aborted                 (core dumped) localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias $locale
   done
  Generation complete.

  -----------------------

  The first CPU on /proc/cpuinfo

  processor	: 0
  vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
  cpu family	: 6
  model		: 87
  model name	: Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) CPU 7250F @ 1.40GHz
  stepping	: 1
  microcode	: 0xffff0190
  cpu MHz		: 999.724
  cache size	: 1024 KB
  physical id	: 0
  siblings	: 272
  core id		: 0
  cpu cores	: 68
  apicid		: 0
  initial apicid	: 0
  fpu		: yes
  fpu_exception	: yes
  cpuid level	: 13
  wp		: yes
  flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch ring3mwait cpuid_fault epb pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms avx512f rdseed adx avx512pf avx512er avx512cd xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts
  bugs		: cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2
  bogomips	: 2793.34
  clflush size	: 64
  cache_alignment	: 64
  address sizes	: 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  power management:

  (the processor count goes down to 271).

  root at knlf1:~# free 
                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
  Mem:      115357040      994456   113797016        2644      565568   113522356
  Swap:      97654780           0    97654780
  root at knlf1:~# df
  Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
  udev            57651028       0  57651028   0% /dev
  tmpfs           11535704    2644  11533060   1% /run
  /dev/sda1       95789468 1629624  89250944   2% /
  tmpfs           57678520       0  57678520   0% /dev/shm
  tmpfs               5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
  tmpfs           57678520       0  57678520   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
  /dev/sda6      575657040   73756 546271748   1% /scr-knlf1
  tmpfs           11535704       0  11535704   0% /run/user/1000
  root at knlf1:~# lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  Release:	18.04
  Codename:	bionic
  root at knlf1:~#  

  Thanks in advance!

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: libc-bin 2.27-3ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  AssertionMessage: malloc(): memory corruption
  Date: Thu May  3 12:19:41 2018
  Dependencies:
   gcc-8-base 8-20180414-1ubuntu2
   libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1
   libgcc1 1:8-20180414-1ubuntu2
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/localedef
  ExecutableTimestamp: 1523909660
  ProcCmdline: localedef -i br_FR -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias br_FR.UTF-8
  ProcCwd: /root
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
   TERM=xterm-256color
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
  Signal: 6
  SourcePackage: glibc
  StacktraceTop:
   __libc_message (action=action at entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt at entry=0x7f246674cb9a "%s\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:181
   malloc_printerr (str=str at entry=0x7f246674ae0e "malloc(): memory corruption") at malloc.c:5350
   _int_malloc (av=av at entry=0x7f2466981c40 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes at entry=4064) at malloc.c:3738
   __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=4064) at malloc.c:3057
   ?? ()
  Title: localedef assert failure: malloc(): memory corruption
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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