starter quest crashes linux build in chroot

handing back the white gem to portal to town crashes the server with this error:

2022-04-06 02:05:04,527 | INFO | Server | EXECUTING CLIENT COMMAND myquests FROM #4 X.X.X.X "testguy"
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

reproduce: run binary in chroot create new character talk to guy by tree then hand white gem back

does not happen in normal privileged user environment