Comment 4 for bug 606794

It's not totally clear whether you tried to set language from the language-selector UI or from the language picker on the login screen. Anyway, since ~/.profile was missing, I'd like to mention that extensive code reorganization was made after v. 0.5.8. At least the current language-selector code should create ~/.profile if it does not exist. As regards language setting from the login screen, new code is about to be committed that changes the behavior.

Could you please check the behavior in Maverick (or Natty), and let us know if the bug is still valid?