PostgreSQL initialization tries to invoke the ‘locale’ program and fails:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... sysv selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 128MB selecting default time zone ... Europe/Oslo creating configuration files ... ok running bootstrap script ... ok performing post-bootstrap initialization ... sh: line 1: locale: command not found 2024-07-05 23:20:32.321 CEST [96] WARNING: no usable system locales were found ok syncing data to disk ... ok initdb: warning: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the option -A, or --auth-local and --auth-host, the next time you run initdb. Success. You can now start the database server using: /gnu/store/2yj5sbnqdhxpn47cd2gzi9s8gvl35h9y-postgresql-13.12/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresqt --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Ludo’.