Comment 7 for bug 1018621

Instead of changing the error message I propose a code change so that the availability of HOME is tested independently of the existence of ~/.profile. Since lp:ubuntu/accountsservice doesn't give me the latest accountsservice branch (which it should), I added an attachment which is a diff that can be applied to the latest version of 0010-set-language.patch.

A quantal build of accountsservice, with the proposed code change, is available in my PPA at https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/misc