Comment 10 for bug 874194

About the same here:

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Richard Peake
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Sebastien, Thanks for asking!
>
> As requested, I did the following:
> sudo apt-get install d-feet
> from Dash, I called up d-feet, used the File menu -> Connect to System Bus
> - go to org.freedesktop.org.Accounts on the left
> - select their path corresponding to their UID on the right, i.e User1000
> (mine was 1101)
>
mine is User1000

> - go to Properties, select "RealName" and get the values of those lines?
> I had 2 lines for String RealName = Michael on each line; both the same.
>
A single line, "RealName = Gil Harari"

>
> michael@saturn:~$ dpkg -l accountsservice
>

> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================
> ii accountsservic 0.6.14-1git1 query and manipulate user account
> informatio
>

$ dpkg -l accountsservice
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii accountsservic 0.6.14-1git1 query and manipulate user account
informatio

>
> I use local users. The username IS correctly displayed on the login
> screen (lightdm) but I have [Invalid UTF-8] on the indicator bar once
> logged in.
>
same for me.

I've changed my UID_MIN to 999, didn't change anything:
$ grep UID_MIN /etc/login.defs
UID_MIN 999

Thanks,
gil

>
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>
> Title:
> indicator-session shows name as "[Invalid UTF-8]" for some users
> (depending on UIDMIN?)
>
> Status in The Session Menu:
> Confirmed
> Status in Unity Foundations:
> Confirmed
> Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “indicator-session” source package in Oneiric:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Description: Ubuntu 11.10
> Release: 11.10
> indicator-session:
> Installed: 0.3.6-0ubuntu2
> Candidate: 0.3.6-0ubuntu2
> Version table:
> *** 0.3.6-0ubuntu2 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> I use UIDs starting at 500, while login.defs specifies UID_MIN as
> 1000, so when I got to the login screen in GDM, I logged in as
> "other". The indicator applet showed my name as [Invalid UTF-8]. I
> changed UID_MIN to 500, restarted, and logged in by choosing my name
> from the menu. My name now shows correctly.
>
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