Network icon gone from notification area

[Teo]

After reboot, the usual network icon is not present in the notification area.
See screenshot (if Launchpad will let me attach it)

The network works and it has automatically connected to my wifi router, but the icon still does not appear. Disabling and reenabling wifi via hardware does not fix the issue.

I tried to report this with "ubuntu-bug nm-applet" (rather than network-manager) but it tells me that the package is not installed, which seems ridiculous.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jul 25 15:22:26 2014
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (286 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.167 metric 9
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-24 (61 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2014-05-20T16:34:16.034908
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 43:29:1A:07:53:91 bluetooth disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3
 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled