Comment 9 for bug 277084

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:02:26PM -0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu - the GNOME version.
>
> I did a Hardy->Intrepid upgrade today (2008-10-26).
> During the upgrade, I didn't get any dialog windows from NetworkManager.
>
> But upon rebooting, there was no Network Manager applet in the GNOME panel,
> and also no network - the NetworkManager daemon didn't try connecting by itself.
> Bit hard to search for bug reports without it :-)
>
> Also under "Add to Panel" there is no Network Manager applet or
> equivalent. (There's a Network Monitor applet but that's different).
>
> I ran nm-applet from a terminal window, then it appeared in the panel.
> It spit out 5 messages like this:
>
> ** (nm-applet:10138): WARNING **: <WARN> constructor(): Invalid
> connection: 'NMSettingConnection' / 'type' invalid: 3
>
> Clicking on the icon, I found it had decided to disable networking.
> (That explains why NetworkManager didn't connect by itself without
> needing the applet).
>
> I re-enabled networking, then selected a wireless access point, and it
> was back to normal, i.e. before the upgrade.
>

Hmm. Did you check whether a nm-applet process was running at all? Can
you reproduce this by disabling networking and rebooting and if you
see this check whether a nm-applet process and a NetworkManager
process is running?

 - Alexander