ansible installation fails with LOCALE error

[Oleg Belousov]

Error:

msg: 'apt-get install 'runit' ' failed: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = (unset),
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LC_TIME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LC_MONETARY = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LC_ADDRESS = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LC_TELEPHONE = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LC_NAME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LC_MEASUREMENT = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LC_IDENTIFICATION = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LC_NUMERIC = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LC_PAPER = "de_DE.UTF-8",
 LANG = "C"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package runit (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 runit
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This is an open source ansimble config from here:

https://github.com/txbits/TxBitsDeployer

Let it be noted that I am using Ubuntu 14.04 instead of Debian 8 as noted in the docs.

Could that be the problem?

[Nico]

Issue is not with Ansible but with your system.
Seems you may have to regenerate some of your locale settings.
Try the solution mentioned here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/162391/how-do-i-fix-my-locale-issue

-Nico