Unable to create a superuser in Django, bugged? - django

Question

I can't seem to create a superuser when prompted to our manually after the prompt(im using sqlite for a db if it is relevant). When I choose 'No' at the prompt it proceeds normally but when I choose 'Yes' here's what happens.
Peter-Buddemeyers-MacBook-Pro:mysite Pete$ python manage.py syncdb
Creating tables ...
Creating table auth_permission
Creating table auth_group_permissions
Creating table auth_group
Creating table auth_user_user_permissions
Creating table auth_user_groups
Creating table auth_user
Creating table django_content_type
Creating table django_session
Creating table django_site
You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any superusers defined.
Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): yes
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 110, in handle_noargs
emit_post_sync_signal(created_models, verbosity, interactive, db)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/sql.py", line 189, in emit_post_sync_signal
interactive=interactive, db=db)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 172, in send
response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 73, in create_superuser
call_command("createsuperuser", interactive=True, database=db)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 150, in call_command
return klass.execute(*args, **defaults)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line 70, in handle
default_username = get_default_username()
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 105, in get_default_username
default_username = get_system_username()
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py", line 85, in get_system_username
return getpass.getuser().decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1])
TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None
Has anyone any ideas ?

Answer 1

It seems that system locale is not set up correctly, therefore locale.getdefaultlocale() returns (None, None). Look at the output of locale to check if this is the case (details are in this document). The simplest solution would be to execute something like setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8 before running python manage.py syncdb.