This is still happening with squeeze. It's something in the environment left over from the installer. This bit of bash is working for me in my post-install script:
# Environment unset -v $(set | sed -e 's/=.*//g' | egrep -v '^(BASH*|HO*|IFS|PATH*|PWD|SHELL*|TERM*)') . /etc/profile export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Before that, the shell variables are: ------------------------------------- BASH=/bin/bash BASHOPTS=cmdhist:extquote:force_fignore:hostcomplete:interactive_comments:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath BASH_ALIASES=() BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_CMDS=() BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="4" [1]="1" [2]="5" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i486-pc-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='4.1.5(1)-release' BOOT_IMAGE=debian6.0/i386/linux DEBCONF_OLD_FD_BASE=4 DEBCONF_REDIR=1 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND=1 DIRSTACK=() EUID=0 GROUPS=() HOME=/ HOSTNAME=swiss HOSTTYPE=i486 IFS=$' \t\n' LANG=C.UTF-8 MACHTYPE=i486-pc-linux-gnu MENU=/usr/bin/main-menu OPTERR=1 OPTIND=1 OSTYPE=linux-gnu PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PPID=6436 PS4='+ ' PWD=/ SHELL=/bin/sh SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments SHLVL=1 TERM=bterm TERM_FRAMEBUFFER=yes TERM_TYPE=virtual UDPKG_QUIET=y UID=0 USER=root And after it, they are: ----------------------- BASH=/bin/bash BASHOPTS=cmdhist:extquote:force_fignore:hostcomplete:interactive_comments:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath BASH_ALIASES=() BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_CMDS=() BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="4" [1]="1" [2]="5" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i486-pc-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='4.1.5(1)-release' EUID=0 HOME=/ HOSTNAME=swiss HOSTTYPE=i486 IFS=$' \t\n' LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PPID=6436 PWD=/ SHELL=/bin/sh SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments TERM=bterm TERM_FRAMEBUFFER=yes TERM_TYPE=virtual UID=0 -Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
