Craig Longman <craigl(at)begeek(dot)com> writes:
> FATAL 2: The database cluster was initialized with LC_COLLATE 'en_US',
> which is not recognized by setlocale().
> It looks like you need to initdb.
> seems pretty strange as i imagine that debian installs en_US as a locale
> option.
I'd have imagined that too, but it seems not; leastwise the error
message is pretty definitive about what Postgres is being told by
setlocale(). Look in /usr/share/locale/ --- is there an en_US
subdirectory? If not, maybe you missed installing some locale RPMs?
regards, tom lane