Troubleshooting

Consider the following error:

There was an error running gitlab-ctl reconfigure: 
execute[/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/initdb -D /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data -E UTF8] (postgresql::enable line 80) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1' 
---- Begin output of /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/initdb -D /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data -E UTF8 ---- 
STDOUT: The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "gitlab-psql". 
This user must also own the server process. 
STDERR: initdb: invalid locale settings; check LANG and LC_* environment variables 
---- End output of /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/initdb -D /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data -E UTF8 ---- 
Ran /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/initdb -D /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data -E UTF8 returned 1

Solution

This issue can be due to the LANG and LC_* variables, which are unset in the Linux system. In the omnibus installation, we can set these variables using the following commands...