Network connections indicator not shown

[Andrew McDonnell]

After a Xubuntu Live session was started, the Network Connections indicator (double arrow icon) was not shown in the XFCE panel.
I assume it should normally to appear just to the left of the clock.

I was able to start a terminal and see all my eth0 and wlan0 interfaces, and when I plugged in a network cable successfully acquired a DHCP address, thus the underlying network connectivity appears to be functioning.

Without this icon I was unable to scan for and connect to a wireless network easily.

As this functionality was here in Xubuntu precise alpha 2 and every other previous image I tested I assume something has been broken.

Note: when I instead tried with a manual installer session initiated from the syslinux menu, the installer was able to present me with a list of my wifi networks and signal strengths and obtain a DHCP address via wifi...

I was also able to repeat this in a qemu kvm session so this is not just a manifestation of my netbook.

[Andrew McDonnell (andymc73)]

Having read I have taken a bit of a punt with the ubi- tags...

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/942573

[Andrew McDonnell (andymc73)]

Also noted: I was able to switch the wlan0 off, using the Netbook wireless case switch, observe iwlan0 was gone from ifconfig, and switch it back on and observe wlan0 was back again.

[Andrew McDonnell (andymc73)]

Screenshot of expected XFCE bar with network indicator icon

[Andrew McDonnell (andymc73)]

Screenshot of observed XFCE bar with missing network indicator icon

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Upgrade to xubuntu-default-settings 12.04.8 (or wait for new daily images that include it to be generated ;-).

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

This bug is present on Ubuntu Beta 1 20120228 build also.
What is the right package to assign it to?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

@Sergio Zanchetta : this bug report has been assigned to the correct package, and has been fixed already. It may be present in Ubuntu now, which would require a new bug report. I suspect the package would be network-manager, but am not positive for Ubuntu.

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[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

@Charlie
No matter, this bug seems to be fixed in the Ubuntu Beta 1 release. :-)
Thanks.

[dajare (dajare)]

@Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit), Re: #10, written on 2012-02-28.

Just tested Xubuntu Beta 1, and this is not fixed in that release. Also, instructions are incorrect on this page:

http://xubuntu.org/news/precisebeta1/

Where "Known Issues" gives instruction to launch "nm-connection-manager" - this should read "nm-connection-editor", but no matter: this still won't launch in Xubuntu Beta 1, as three GTK errors get thrown, all parsing errors to:

- misc.css:13:17
- misc.css:15:16
- misc.css:16:11

"Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'."

I get no Network Manager in systray, even though nm-applet shows up in Task Manager, and no way to make a wireless connection.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Could you please try with the latest image, which is dated 2012-03-04 and available at http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/20120304/ . This image will have the up-to-date file and should be fixed. Beta1 did not have the fix yet. Let us know here by comment if it works with this latest image. Thanks in advance.

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