[1.5.x] Fixed #19933 -- Catched ValueError in get_system_username

Thanks lanre.hbs at gmail.com for the report.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py b/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py
index a77bba0f73..34492d24e0 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py
@@ -133,7 +133,10 @@ def get_system_username():
         # (a very restricted chroot environment, for example).
         return ''
     if not six.PY3:
-        default_locale = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+        try:
+            default_locale = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+        except ValueError:
+            return ''
         if not default_locale:
             return ''
         try: