nm-applet goes unresponsive randomly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
nm-applet sometimes goes unresponsive, generally after a couple of days of intermittent laptop use (including suspends). The menu does come up, but choosing an interface to activate doesn't do anything for either wifi or mobile networks. Not even a visible attempt is made to connect, nor is a failure reported.
Killing nm-applet and restarting it is a functional workaround (and thus is also logging out and back in), so it's clearly the applet and not network manager itself that's the problem. While there is a workaround, this is likely to be very frustrating for users, especially those less likely to come up with the kill/restart workaround.
Using the standard Unity interface, if that matters.
mjrauhal@t420s-4:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
mjrauhal@t420s-4:~$ apt-cache policy network-
network-
Installed: 0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.