Newbie - 3.1r0a - "locale" problem on new install

From: Eric Miller (ecm56_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/21/05

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    Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:34:52 -0800 (PST)
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    Hello Debian Users:

    I haven't seen this on the FAQ or any of the recent
    messages that I have found. I'm trying to recycle an
    old NEC Pentium 200 with 128Mb of RAM so I can
    experiment with Linux. I am not trying to dual boot
    or anything fancy - Debian will have the whole disk.
    loaded up Debian from the binary 1 image of Debian 3.1
    r0a.
     
    After an initial glitch with a GRUB error 18 that was
    apparently
    caused by a partition being too large - I think this
    was due to the old BIOS on the machine combined with a
    large hard drive (I cut the partition down and made
    two partitions) it installed smoothly and seemed to
    recognize all the hardware. It finished the install
    and I rebooted from the system now loaded on the hard
    drive.

    Again, all seemed to go well until it got to "This
    program will now walk you through the process of
    setting up . . ."

    Then I got three error messages that repeated (it
    seemed to be in a loop) -

    First -
    13 77 Failed at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 166

    then -
    Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 12

    and -
    Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 13

    I couldn't find any way to make it go any further. I
    was able to shut down and I booted up a Knoppix CD,
    mounted the HD file systems and was able to look at
    the scripts. Dialog.pm is aparently generated by
    another process. The version on the drive didn't have
    anywhere close to 166 lines. I was able to look at
    the script Encoding.pm and I saw where it was trying
    to use "locale" but I didn't see anything I could do
    to resolve the error.

    I would appreciate any advice or assistance.

    I apologize in advance if I have overlooked something
    obvious (I did try to RTFM and I didn't see anything
    about this).

    Thanks,

    Eric 

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