Ubuntu
indicator-session package

  1. Bug #874194
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 874194

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Richard Peake (yourtechfriend) wrote : Re: indicator-session shows name as "[Invalid UTF-8]" for some users (depending on UIDMIN?)

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)
- 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.

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

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.