Failed to start tserver yugabyted

General
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Hi, I am trying to follow Linux Quick Start guide on Ubuntu 22.04 here:

and running into a problem with:

./bin/yugabyted start --advertise_address 127.0.0.1

as it produces an error as below:

Starting yugabyted...
❌ Database failed to start            
Failed to start tserver yugabyted
For more information, check the logs in /home/level7/var/logs

when inspecting log files, I note an error as below:

cat /home/level7/var/logs/tserver.err

F1104 20:25:50.051936  2308 tablet_server_main_impl.cc:290] Runtime error (yb/util/subprocess.cc:564): Subprocess '/home/level7/yugabyte-2025.1.1.2/postgres/bin/initdb' terminated with non-zero exit status 256
Fatal failure details written to /home/level7/var/data/yb-data/tserver/logs/yb-tserver.FATAL.details.2025-11-04T20_25_50.pid2308.txt
F20251104 20:25:50 ../../src/yb/tserver/tablet_server_main_impl.cc:290] Runtime error (yb/util/subprocess.cc:564): Subprocess '/home/level7/yugabyte-2025.1.1.2/postgres/bin/initdb' terminated with non-zero exit status 256
    @     0x55c4cb4ca660  google::LogMessage::SendToLog()
    @     0x55c4cb4cb62b  google::LogMessage::Flush()
    @     0x55c4cb4cbc29  google::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal()
    @     0x55c4ccfbe190  yb::tserver::TabletServerMain()
    @     0x55c4cb478a44  main
    @     0x7f7abbeacd90  (unknown)
    @     0x7f7abbeace40  __libc_start_main
    @     0x55c4cb29802e  _start

*** Check failure stack trace: ***
    @     0x55c4cb4cadf4  google::LogMessage::SendToLog()
    @     0x55c4cb4cb62b  google::LogMessage::Flush()
    @     0x55c4cb4cbc29  google::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal()
    @     0x55c4ccfbe190  yb::tserver::TabletServerMain()
    @     0x55c4cb478a44  main
    @     0x7f7abbeacd90  (unknown)
    @     0x7f7abbeace40  __libc_start_main
    @     0x55c4cb29802e  _start

Would anyone have suggestions on how to troubleshot this?

Regards,

Chris

2

Hi Chris,

Can you also check the contents of the file mentioned here?

Fatal failure details written to /home/level7/var/data/yb-data/tserver/logs/yb-tserver.FATAL.details.2025-11-04T20_25_50.pid2308.txt

regards
Kannan

3

Hi, sure, the contents of the file below:

cat /home/level7/var/data/yb-data/tserver/logs/yb-tserver.FATAL.details.2025-11-04T20_25_50.pid2308.txt
F20251104 20:25:50 ../../src/yb/tserver/tablet_server_main_impl.cc:290] Runtime error (yb/util/subprocess.cc:564): Subprocess '/home/level7/yugabyte-2025.1.1.2/postgres/bin/initdb' terminated with non-zero exit status 256
    @     0x55c4cb4ca660  google::LogMessage::SendToLog()
    @     0x55c4cb4cb62b  google::LogMessage::Flush()
    @     0x55c4cb4cbc29  google::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal()
    @     0x55c4ccfbe190  yb::tserver::TabletServerMain()
    @     0x55c4cb478a44  main
    @     0x7f7abbeacd90  (unknown)
    @     0x7f7abbeace40  __libc_start_main
    @     0x55c4cb29802e  _start

Regards,

Chris

4

Can you please share your initdb.log in the tserver logs?

5

Hi, there is no initdb.log file in logs folder. Below you will find complete “var” directory which includes all logs etc. for you to review:

Regards, Chris

6

I see this message

717 W1105 10:25:35.020390 2900 subprocess.cc:210] [initdb] initdb: error: invalid locale name “en_US.UTF-8”

Can you try setting the LOCALE?

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

7

I can confirm running:

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

resolved the problem :slight_smile: Thank you for your help!

Regards,

Chris

PS.

I note Debian 12 is not listed as compatible OS for Yugabyte DB deployment. Is there any particular reason for that?

8

Hi @chris
There’s no particular reason, we just don’t have extensive tests with it.