Bug #13496
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foreman-installer error when locale is not en_US.utf8
Description
Hello,
I'm under debian 8 and my locales are set to en_GB.UTF-8.
I have followed the debian dedicated documentation, I just add the repositories and I install 'foreman-installer', then I execute the command :
foreman-installer
Then, I got the following errors :
/Stage[main]/Foreman::Database::Postgresql/Postgresql::Server::Db[foreman]/Postgresql::Server::Database[foreman]/Exec[/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/createdb --port='5432' --owner='foreman' --template=template0 --encoding 'utf8' --locale=en_US.utf8 'foreman']: Failed to call refresh: /usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/createdb --port='5432' --owner='foreman' --template=template0 --encoding 'utf8' --locale=en_US.utf8 'foreman' returned 1 instead of one of [0]
In postgresl error log, we can see this error :
2016-02-01 12:10:49 CET [4258-1] postgres@postgres ERROR: invalid locale name: "en_US.utf8"
Just adding locale 'en_US.utf8' using the command :
dpkg-reconfigure locales
And selecting "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" in the first screen "Locales to be generated" do the trick.
Thanks for your great tool.
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Tracker changed from Support to Bug
- Project changed from Foreman to Installer
- Category changed from Internationalization to Foreman modules
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Related to Bug #11681: foreman, candlepin, gutterball databases use default encoding vs explicit UTF8 added
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Translation missing: en.field_release set to 123
Updated by Anonymous almost 9 years ago
I'm a bit unsure what to do here. We could check the presence of that locale in a pre-hook, but probably that's also an issue for remote DB setups, so it might be just best to document that?
Updated by Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden almost 9 years ago
I think we should do both.
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
Yeah, probably both. We could also perhaps have a fact to detect a non-en_US UTF-8 locale as a fallback?
Updated by Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden almost 9 years ago
I can't judge how well non-en_US UTF-8 locales would work or if it may introduce subtle bugs. With en_GB that's unlikely, but for others I don't what it would do.
Updated by Grégoire Bellon-Gervais almost 9 years ago
If you need, I can perform some tests with "exotic" locales.
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Translation missing: en.field_release changed from 123 to 145
Updated by Anonymous almost 9 years ago
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman/pull/417 added
I added a sentence to the theforeman-foreman readme, maybe this also should go to the quickstart/installer docs? As said, as I think this is mainly about the locale being available at the database node and it must be checked there I think it doesn't make sense to check in an installer hook.
Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago
- Translation missing: en.field_release deleted (
145)