nm-applet appears to be running but does not appear in the indicator applet

[Jeff Lane ]

After a previous update ( I don't know which) nm-applet disappeared from the indicator applet. according to ps axf, nm-applet appears to be running, but does not appear in the indicator applet are.

Without this, I am having to start network devices manually via dhclient from terminal. I am not sure when this started failing (other than at some point after UDS in May).

The system is Lucid upgraded from Karmic with all current updates installed as of 9 June 2010.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Wed Jun 9 12:29:51 2010
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.10
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.6 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Jeff,

If you issue the commands 'killall nm-applet && nm-applet &', does the applet show up again in your system tray?

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Nope... and since I can't find any real info easily...

bladernr@klaatu:~$ nm-applet --help
Usage: nm-applet

This program is a component of NetworkManager (http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager).
It is not intended for command-line interaction but instead runs in the GNOME desktop environment.

I notice that the default behaviour when it's started at boot time is nm-applet --sm-disable but I have no idea at this point what --sm-disable is (haven't had the time to google so far)

Also, this is the version I'm running:

network-manager-gnome:
  Installed: 0.8-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.8-0ubuntu3

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Jeff,

Please attach (if you can) your file ~/xsessions-errors, or an excerpt of it, we need to know if nm-applet is complaining about anything and refuses to start, or if it starts but fails to do something that will let it be displayed.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Ok... solved this... sort of.

I saw a post on the ubuntu-users list that said:

On 06/09/2010 06:50 AM, drew einhorn wrote:
> The NM applet was hiding in the Notification Area applet, but the
> Notification Area applet was missing for some reason. Once I added
> the NA applet back in everything was back to normal.

Then I had the Ah Hah moment... For some reason, the Notification Area had disappeared after an update in the last 3 weeks or so. Like the poster on the list, I re-added notification area applet and nm-applet was present and accounted for.

I didn't think to look here as I thought that nm-applet was already fixed to use Indicator Applet instead... apparently not.

SO, the new question is, did some gnome related update remove Notification Area Applet from my desktop??

[Sergio Soto (ssoto)]

Mathieu, I have the same error. The nm-applet doesn't appear in the Notification Area.
I removed the Notification Area and added it before but it doesn't work.

nm-applet is running with --sm-disable.
$ ps -fax|grep nm-applet
 1967 ? S 0:00 nm-applet --sm-disable

$tail -f ~/.xsession-errors
** Message: secret service operation failed: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
** Message: secret service operation failed: Activation of org.freedesktop.secrets timed out

My network-manager-gnome is 0.8-0ubuntu3

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Bug resolved for the original reporter.