Upgrading Red Hat Satellite/Capsule Server fails with "The system encoding is not set to UTF-8" error

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Issue

  • Upgrading Capsule server fails with the below error:

    The system encoding is not set to UTF-8.
Your system does not meet configuration criteria
                                          [FAIL]
Failed executing foreman-installer, exit status 20
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Scenario [Migration scripts] failed.

The following steps ended up in failing state:

 [installer-run]

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Satellite Capsule

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