encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_US; the chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1
Solution 1
Thanks for locale
output. OpenNMS seems to be using your en_US (non-UTF-8) locale in order to create postgres db, and this is wrong. This should work:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
locale # confirm that it shows only en_US.UTF-8 for all settings
# finally, run your opennms installer
/usr/share/opennms/bin/install -l /usr/local/lib -dis
Solution 2
I am answering this because nothing from StackOverFlow worked for me.
I combined two solutions from other sites that did the job (this answer works for Ubuntu server 12.04 and PGSQL 9.1):
Create a file:
nano /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
Add the following
export LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Save it
Restart shell or run all export commands manually in current shell instance
Reconfigure so the encoding can be UTF8 ([got it from here][1])
sudo su postgres
psql
update pg_database set datistemplate=false where datname='template1';
drop database Template1;
create database template1 with owner=postgres encoding='UTF-8'
lc_collate='en_US.utf8' lc_ctype='en_US.utf8' template template0;
update pg_database set datistemplate=true where datname='template1';
Use template1 for db creation.
I hope this helps ;)
Solution 3
this worked for me:
CREATE DATABASE mydb WITH ENCODING='UTF8' LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8' LC_COLLATE='en_US.UTF-8' OWNER=postgres TEMPLATE=template0 CONNECTION LIMIT=-1;
Solution 4
This is happening because your system is setup to use Latin1 encoding instead of UTF-8. Your language is set correctly to en_US, but the encoding is not set to UTF-8. Try running this:$
localedef -v -c -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
This will set tell all of your applications that are installed after the change (i think) to use the English language with unicode encoding. More information can be found here: https://www.linux.com/learn/docs/ldp/790-Unicode-HOWTO#s3
I had a similar issue so I:
- aptitude purge postresql ...
- localedef -v -c -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
- aptitude install postresql ....
and then postregsql knew to set itself to use the english language with unicode encoding.
Of course, you could do this on a per database basis as described here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/multibyte.html
Solution 5
I have the same error:
ERROR: new collation (en_US.utf8) is incompatible with the collation of the template database (en_US.UTF-8)
HINT: Use the same collation as in the template database, or use template0 as template.
Solution:
dpkg-reconfigure locales (choose en_US.UTF-8)
then:
sudo -u postgres psql
postgres=# update pg_database set datistemplate=false where datname='template1';
UPDATE 1
postgres=# drop database Template1;
DROP DATABASE
postgres=# create database template1 with owner=postgres encoding='UTF-8'
postgres-# lc_collate='en_US.utf8' lc_ctype='en_US.utf8' template template0;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# update pg_database set datistemplate=true where datname='template1';
UPDATE 1
Test:
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE Person
WITH
OWNER = Person
ENCODING = 'UTF8'
LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.utf8'
LC_CTYPE = 'en_US.utf8'
TABLESPACE = pg_default
CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;
CREATE DATABASE
It works :)
kamal
Updated on September 25, 2021Comments
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kamal over 2 years
While trying to install opennms :
/usr/share/opennms/bin/install -l /usr/local/lib -dis
I get the error:
ERROR: encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_US Detail: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1.
and I'm not sure how to proceed, as I've tried creating the DB several different ways (see below).
Full log:
============================================================================== OpenNMS Installer ============================================================================== Configures PostgreSQL tables, users, and other miscellaneous settings. - searching for jicmp: - trying to load /usr/local/lib/libjicmp.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/jni/libjicmp.so: OK - searching for jicmp6: - trying to load /usr/local/lib/libjicmp6.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/jni/libjicmp6.so: OK - searching for jrrd: - trying to load /usr/local/lib/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/jni/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/jni/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_34/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_34/jre/lib/amd64/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_34/jre/../lib/amd64/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/share/opennms/lib/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/share/opennms/lib/linux64/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/java/packages/lib/amd64/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib64/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /lib64/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /lib/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/jni/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/lib/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /usr/local/lib/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /opt/NMSjicmp/lib/32/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /opt/NMSjicmp/lib/64/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /opt/NMSjicmp6/lib/32/libjrrd.so: NO - trying to load /opt/NMSjicmp6/lib/64/libjrrd.so: NO - Failed to load the optional jrrd library. - This error is not fatal, since jrrd is only required for optional features. - For more information, see http://www.opennms.org/index.php/jrrd - using SQL directory... /usr/share/opennms/etc - using create.sql... /usr/share/opennms/etc/create.sql * using 'postgres' as the PostgreSQL user for OpenNMS * using 'opennms' as the PostgreSQL database name for OpenNMS Exception in thread "main" org.opennms.core.schema.MigrationException: an error occurred creating the OpenNMS database at org.opennms.core.schema.Migrator.createDatabase(Migrator.java:428) at org.opennms.core.schema.Migrator.prepareDatabase(Migrator.java:444) at org.opennms.install.Installer.install(Installer.java:236) at org.opennms.install.Installer.main(Installer.java:949) Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_US Detail: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1. at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.receiveErrorResponse(QueryExecutorImpl.java:2102) at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1835) at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.execute(QueryExecutorImpl.java:257) at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:500) at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.executeWithFlags(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:374) at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:366) at org.opennms.core.schema.Migrator.createDatabase(Migrator.java:425) ... 3 more
List of databases:
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges -----------+----------+----------+---------+-------+----------------------- postgres | postgres | LATIN1 | en_US | en_US | rhq | rhqadmin | LATIN1 | en_US | en_US | template0 | postgres | LATIN1 | en_US | en_US | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres template1 | postgres | LATIN1 | en_US | en_US | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres (4 rows)
I have used the following 3 initdb options but none of them work
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -E UTF-8 --pgdata=/usr/local/pgsql/data /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -E LATIN1 --pgdata=/usr/local/pgsql/data /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -E en_US.UTF8 --pgdata=/usr/local/pgsql/data
Also, do i need to delete all data in
/usr/local/pgsql/data
before i useinitdb
?appending locale command stdout:
$locale
LANG=en_US LANGUAGE=en_US: LC_CTYPE="en_US" 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=