As per Robert Love's suggestion in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341320, I tried doing "sudo NetworkManager --no-daemon" and lo and behold, the nm-applet icon appears again. Now the mystery has shifted to why the daemon crashes in the first place.
(and also why n-m thinks my Broadcom 4309 is a wired interface, but that's a different bug).
As per Robert Love's suggestion in http:// bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 341320, I tried doing "sudo NetworkManager --no-daemon" and lo and behold, the nm-applet icon appears again. Now the mystery has shifted to why the daemon crashes in the first place.
(and also why n-m thinks my Broadcom 4309 is a wired interface, but that's a different bug).