'VPN Connections' menu is truncated

[Taylor Braun-Jones]

Binary package hint: indicator-network

Occasionally my VPN connection menu becomes truncated - all I see is broken-looking menu segment without even an option to add a new VPN connection (see attached screenshot). I haven't figured out if there is any pattern as to what triggers this.

`killall -HUP gnome-panel` does not make the problem go away. I have to log out and back in.

This is on an up-to-date natty installation.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This looks similar to bug 771229.

[Sunil K Chopra (sunil-sunilkchopra)]

This is happening to me as well. Looks exactly like that. I'm running 11.04 64-bit on a Lenovo T520.

[LarryBuza (ljbuza)]

Killing and restarting nm-applet will get the vpn submenu back, at the expense of dropping and restarting your network connection.

[Jerry Ablan (lucifurious)]

I believe this is related to either a screen saver or the screen blanking process. I say this because it's almost 100% now that when I leave my system alone to go to work, when I get home (10 hrs), the VPN menu is just a tiny, unmanly, nub.

My semi-educated guess is that the VPN menu is an applet/plug-in of sorts which isn't listening for/subscribed to/getting the "wake-up and re-build" event/hook. But, I have no idea about the internals of Gnome so take it with a grain of salt.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stephen Rees-Carter (valorin)]

This is also happening on 12.04, although the entire menu is broken for me: Bug #933791

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Filled before the indicator-network rewrite. Marking invalid as it applies to the old codebase.