Hi Tom,
sorry for not replying for so long. LC_ALL is set to 'en_us'. We finally got
it to run by setting LC_MESSAGES to 'C'. But since we will have to redo this
we'll try -d then.
thanks a lot
Gerd
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"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in message
news:1928.1043160502@sss.pgh.pa.us...
> "GB" <nobody@nirvana.xx> writes:
> > I just tried a fresh install of pg 7.3.1 on a SuSE 8.1 box. I keep
getting
> > messages like
> > Failed to initialize lc_messages to ''
> > during initdb. I already tried --locale=C but no help. Anyone any
> > ideas?
>
> Try initdb with -d option and show us the (last few lines of) output.
> Also, what is your LANG/LC_ALL setting? Does the -d output change
> when you use --locale=C?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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