Red Hat Satellite 5.7 installation fails with "Error: createdb: database creation failed"

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Issue

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.7 installation fails with below mentioned error:
Error:
createdb: database creation failed: ERROR:  new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)

Error: createdb: database creation failed: ERROR:  encoding "UTF8" does not match locale "en_US" ; DETAIL:  The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding "LATIN1"

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6

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