[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#848869: Error: could not create default cluster. Please create it manually with

[Christoph Berg]

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Re: Darshaka Pathirana 2016-12-20 <20161220110151.19348.48480.reportbug at invincible>
>   Error: The locale requested by the environment is invalid.

> Locale looks like this:
> 
>   % locale
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en

Hi,

on package installation (only), the locale used for pg_createcluster
(= initdb) is not determined by your environment (which "locale" looks
at), but by the system configuration in /etc/environment and
/etc/default/locale.

Could you check what you have configured in these files?

Christoph