Comment 5 for bug 837246

- User name shown as [Invalid UTF-8] in live session (LP: #837246)

I upgraded today from 11.04 to 11.10 and the [Invalid UTF-8] shows up rather than the User_account_name.
This is an issue for all user accounts. I haven't changed any user IDs or group IDs, nor have I added or removed or changed users or user group memberships. I didn't do anything but upgrade to 11.04 to 11.10. My installation is completely up to date and there's nothing left to do in the way of installing new updates -- so this bug isn't fixed. It's very much alive and kicking for me.

$ dpkg -s indicator-session|grep Version
Version: 0.3.6-0ubuntu2

$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/834137