network/wifi icon missing from top bar and user menu

[Florian Echtler]

On 18.04, after a recent update, the top bar in gnome-shell does not show a wifi icon anymore. More importantly, the network menu entry is missing in the user menu.

This appears to be already tracked in this upstream bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/140

Here's the recent updates that may have cause this (apparently the switch from 3.28.1 to 3.28.2):

  gnome-shell-common:amd64 (3.28.1-0ubuntu2, 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
  gnome-shell:amd64 (3.28.1-0ubuntu2, 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
  gnome-desktop3-data:amd64 (3.28.1-1ubuntu1, 3.28.2-0ubuntu1)
  libgnome-desktop-3-17:amd64 (3.28.1-1ubuntu1, 3.28.2-0ubuntu1)
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Jul 17 08:56:18 2018
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is a distribution channel descriptor
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-oneiric-amd64-20111116-1
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-12 (2103 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20111116-18:24
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-06-14 (32 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1774957, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.