Re: Installation trouble - Solved (?)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> writes:
>>Summary:
>>I installed glibc-locale and initdb now works fine.
>
> Interesting.  I had just come to the conclusion that you were missing
> some files...
 >
>....the other four files all exist and are in
> the glibc-common RPM, which means that it's pretty much impossible not
> to have them installed.  I wasn't aware that other distros package them
> as optional, but now we know.

Well, the good news is that we can at least say that if you get the message:

FATAL:  XX000: failed to initialize lc_messages to ""

then check to make sure that glibc-locale is properly installed.

Perhaps this will help the next person to search the archives for that
message.

Cheers,
Steve