For additional reference: The incorrect locale settings I had: LANG=en_US LANGUAGE=en_US: LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL=
The error message as correctly reported in version 9.1.3-2: $ sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-9.1=9.1.3-2 $ sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1=9.1.3-2 [...] initdb: encoding mismatch The encoding you selected (UTF8) and the encoding that the selected locale uses (LATIN1) do not match [...] As mentioned above, the bug being reported is the lack of this error message in package version 9.1.9-0ubuntu12.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to postgresql-9.1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1169369 Title: installation error messages for locale settings are not displayed Status in “postgresql-9.1” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS postgresql-9.1 version 9.1.9-0ubuntu12.04 Expected: if locale settings are not valid, an error message should be shown either when failing to initialize the cluster, or failing to install the package altogther: What actually occurred: I installed postgresql-9.1=9.1.9-0ubuntu12.04, which reported no error messages, but the cluster had not been initialised and the installation had not completed successfully: both /etc/postgresql/9.1/ and /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/ didn't exist, leaving me unable to manually initialise the cluster This may be a regression, as I was able to troubleshoot and discover the issue by installing postgresql-9.1=9.1.3-2 which *did* report an error initializing the cluster due to incorrect locale settings, and also did correctly create and populate /etc/postgresql/9.1/* configuration files. I was then able to manually initialize the cluster and manually generate a server.crt and upgrade to 9.1.9-0ubuntu12.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-9.1/+bug/1169369/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
