nm-applet hangs without creating any gui window

[John Wiersba]

I'm running the latest feisty. When I run nm-applet from the command line, it just hangs without any errors and without creating any gui windows -- I have no clue what it's doing or what it's waiting for. I am able to run Network Monitor 2.12.1 from the notification area icon, which creates one window entitlede "Connection Properties: eth1".

I've never been able to run nm-applet, so I don't know what it's supposed to do, but it appears to be totally inoperative. The Network Monitor gui only allows WEP, not WPA. Wireless with WEP works fine with DHCP, but I don't seem to be able to even attempt to run WPA.

Please let me know what more information I can supply to resolve this.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi there
do you still experience this issue with the current version of the application?, could you please try to reproduce this using the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron.

Thanks in advance

[John Wiersba (jrw32982)]

It still has the behavior described in my original report, even under Hardy Heron. However, I think I now understand that this is its intended behavior. Running nm-applet only adds the nm icon to the notification area and does not terminate. If the nm icon is already there, it still does not terminate but it also has no visible behavior. Running nm-applet does not bring up any GUI windows, such as you would get by selecting from the left- or right- mouse button lists of the nm-applet notification icon, which is what I expected (a GUI application). In other words, nm-applet is not a GUI program in the same sense as, say firefox or openoffice.org or gnome-terminal.

[Miles kuo (gb-bupt)]

I also encountered this problem of nm-applet on updated feisty.
But on released Hardy, the problem seems fixed.

[Jayson Rowe (jayson.rowe)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!