networkmanager gnome applets starts but not shown in the notification area
Bug #288862 reported by
gebi
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #289466: MASTER Network Manager 0.7 applet not Appearing if there are managed entries in /etc/network/interfaces.
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network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
the network-manager icon is not shown but the applet is started.
In the screen-shot you see, that right click at the right place in the notification area the network-manager pull-down menu appears !?
by unmark the "enable networking" box - the applet icon appears.
I'm using networkmanager-
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I see the same thing. It's just updated intrepid yesterday and it no longer works. manager- gnome and network-manager
I purged and re-installed network-
and reinstalled dbus and a couple of other plausible things.
ps indicates that nm-applet is actually running, but not displaying anything.
If I kill it and re-start it, I get this:
~$ kill 5889
gpk@nglap:~$
gpk@nglap:~$ ps -e -f | grep nm-applet
gpk 6024 5987 0 11:21 pts/0 00:00:00 grep nm-applet
gpk@nglap:~$ nm-applet
^C** Message: Caught signal 2, shutting down...
gpk@nglap:~$ nm-applet
^C** Message: Caught signal 2, shutting down...
gpk@nglap:~$ man nm-applet
No manual entry for nm-applet
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
gpk@nglap:~$ sudo nm-applet
[sudo] password for gpk:
** (nm-applet:6132): WARNING **: No connections defined
I'm running a AMD64 with an atheros network card. I get no wired ethernet connection,
either, unless I run dhclient3 manually.