Can't add superuser

[rihad]

Hi, I'm unable to add superuser. Running latest development trunk of
Django, & Python 2.7

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 9, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py", line 422, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py", line 361, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 220, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 351, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
commands/syncdb.py", line 109, in handle_noargs
emit_post_sync_signal(created_models, verbosity, interactive, db)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
sql.py", line 189, in emit_post_sync_signal
interactive=interactive, db=db)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/dispatch/
dispatcher.py", line 172, in send
response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/
management/__init__.py", line 73, in create_superuser
call_command("createsuperuser", interactive=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py", line 148, in call_command
return klass.execute(*args, **defaults)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 220, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/
management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line 63, in handle
default_username = get_default_username()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/
management/__init__.py", line 105, in get_default_username
default_username = get_system_username()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/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


Because of this, I can't use the admin app:
Site matching query does not exist.

[Karen Tracey]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:43 AM, rihad <ri...@mail.ru> wrote:

Hi, I'm unable to add superuser. Running latest development trunk of
Django, & Python 2.7

This has been reported: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16017

One way to fix it would be to get a locale properly set on your machine. Another would be to read that ticket and try patching your Django with one of the patches attached there.

Karen
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[rihad]

On Nov 1, 4:43 am, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:43 AM, rihad <ri...@mail.ru> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm unable to add superuser. Running latest development trunk of
> > Django, & Python 2.7
>
> This has been reported:https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16017
>
> One way to fix it would be to get a locale properly set on your machine.

Thanks. I just set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (from empty), dropped the
auth_user & django_site tables for them to be recreated, ran "manage
syncdb", and now everything works. Apparently it's a new quirk of
Django, earlier releases didn't care if LANG was set.