Comment 13 for bug 1577460

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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

Ahh, and this is why. I was previously testing with "de_DE", and today tested with "de_DE.UTF-8":

(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# dpkg -l libc6 | grep ^i
ii libc6:amd64 2.23-0ubuntu3 amd64 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# mkinitramfs --help
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: unrecognized option '--help'
W: non-GNU getopt
(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# LANG=de_DE mkinitramfs --help
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
W: non-GNU getopt
(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 mkinitramfs --help
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
W: non-GNU getopt
(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# apt-get update && apt-get install libc6
[...]
(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# dpkg -l libc6 | grep ^i
ii libc6:amd64 2.23-0ubuntu4 amd64 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# mkinitramfs --help
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: unrecognized option '--help'
W: non-GNU getopt
(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# LANG=de_DE mkinitramfs --help
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: unrecognized option '--help'
W: non-GNU getopt
(xenial-amd64)root@nosferatu:~# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 mkinitramfs --help
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
W: non-GNU getopt