postgres init : could not look effective user id : user does not exists

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I upgraded to postgres 9.6.0. I am not able to start a new database instance. On

pg_ctl -D /localscratch/sandeep/pgsql_sa_5579 init

I get error

initdb: could not look up effective user ID 21073: user does not exist

I am not sure if this is OS setup issue or a database issue. I am on CentOS release 6.8.

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