[DRE-maint] Bug#831448: gitlab: fails to install database

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: severity -1 important

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:09:01 +0000 cloos at jhcloos.com wrote:
> Package: gitlab
> Version: 8.9.0+dfsg-4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> installing gitlab via apt with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 results in this:
> 
> Create database if not present
> psql: FATAL:  database "gitlab_production" does not exist
> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR:  encoding "UTF8" does not match locale "en_US"
> DETAIL:  The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding "LATIN1".
> dpkg: error processing package gitlab (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  gitlab
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It is most likely an issue with your local setup. Can you reproduce it
on a clean chroot without setting locale manually?

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