Comment 25 for bug 284596

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : Re: nm-applet fail when another user is logged in (intrepid)

I understand the causality you're seeing here, but I don't really see how you can be sure that nm-applet is the culprit here. A few things to test:
- How can you be sure that NetworkManager does not start, if the whole desktop is blocked?
- Does starting KDE, then going to GNOME breaks the same way?
- Do you see any error messages in ~/.xsession-errors after starting KDE the second time? (get it from the console)

Basically, KDE should not rely on the network to work (obvious). So the problem can be that the applet tries to start and for some reason hangs and blocks the desktop with it. But that's strange, since I don't believe that the whole desktop is so fragile WRT applets.

Again, please open a new report and post its address here. No need to spam all the people with something that's not stricly the same bug.