networkmanager gnome applets starts but not shown in the notification area

[gebi]

the network-manager icon is not shown but the applet is started.
In the screen-shot you see, that right click at the right place in the notification area the network-manager pull-down menu appears !?
by unmark the "enable networking" box - the applet icon appears.

I'm using networkmanager-gnome applet 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1 on a up to date intrepid.

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

I see the same thing. It's just updated intrepid yesterday and it no longer works.
I purged and re-installed network-manager-gnome and network-manager
and reinstalled dbus and a couple of other plausible things.

ps indicates that nm-applet is actually running, but not displaying anything.
If I kill it and re-start it, I get this:

~$ kill 5889
gpk@nglap:~$
gpk@nglap:~$ ps -e -f | grep nm-applet
gpk 6024 5987 0 11:21 pts/0 00:00:00 grep nm-applet
gpk@nglap:~$ nm-applet
^C** Message: Caught signal 2, shutting down...
gpk@nglap:~$ nm-applet
^C** Message: Caught signal 2, shutting down...
gpk@nglap:~$ man nm-applet
No manual entry for nm-applet
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
gpk@nglap:~$ sudo nm-applet
[sudo] password for gpk:

** (nm-applet:6132): WARNING **: No connections defined

I'm running a AMD64 with an atheros network card. I get no wired ethernet connection,
either, unless I run dhclient3 manually.

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

Here's the result of strace nm-applet after killing off the one spawned by gnome.

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

Here's the same, but run under sudo.

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

Is this the same as bug 290484?

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb)]

Also, I think "no network connection" is somewhat confusing, nm-applet should show something like "no NM managed connection" or something similar, because there IS network connection just it's not managed by NM, maybe.

[Apipote (javiergg)]

Here's the same.
I use now wicd

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

I don't think it's the same as 290484. I don't see any icon, even when sitting next to my WiFi router. Possibly, that difference is accounted for because of some wireless misconfiguration, but it's hard to tell.

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

Ah... It turns out that an "update" of ubuntu disabled my wireless in the last few days.
So, yes, I agree this is probably the same as 290484.

The bug report announcing the disabling if the atheros 5XXX drivers is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/288148 .

I am also now booting with the hpet=disable kernel flag to solve a boot
hang problem. Whatever, NetworkManager now works for me, at least
where there is a network connection of one kind or another.

[legolas558 (legolas558)]

I am also affected by this problem.

When the card is set in Monitor mode (either via iwconfig or through another program) the applet shows no icon.

It is very difficult to click on the applet icon since it seems like 1-pixel wide!

This problem is obviously not tied to the type of wireless network card, however I have an ipw2100

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

dupe of bug 289466 ... which is fixed in latest applet in intrepid-updates.