Comment 11 for bug 969360

I am not sure that this is the correct bug for me. I only comment here because apport sent me to bug #969393, which is a duplicate of this bug.

I was copying a partition to another with gparted on my external USB drive. This must have created a bottleneck (neither on the cpu nor with swap). As a consequence my desktop became unresponsive. Every window greyed out from time to time including the active one. To investigate the problem i switched to tty1 with ctrl-alt-F1. When I came back to my graphical desktop, apport reported this internal error of ubuntu. Aside from the unresponsiveness only my name in the indicator got wrong. It now shows [invalid UTF-8].

I hope, this helps.