nm-applet becomes unresponsive, requiring a restart
Bug #825897 reported by
Jamin W. Collins
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Network Manager Applet |
New
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Medium
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network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After nm-applet has been running for a while (overnight) it becomes unresponsive:
- unable to uncheck "Enable Wireless"
- doesn't list the numerous additional networks under "More Networks"
- doesn't find new networks
This behavior persists until the applet is restarted via something like:
killall nm-applet; sleep 1; nohup nm-applet &
This problem has been consistently present since 11.04
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | network-manager (Ubuntu) → network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
Changed in network-manager-applet: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
summary: |
- network-manager becomes unresponsive, requiring a service restart + nm-applet becomes unresponsive, requiring a restart |
description: | updated |
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I think I'm experiencing the same issue. After running overnight, the NM applet becomes unresponsive- -clicking on any menu item does nothing, and the submenus are empty. I tried restarting the network-manager service once but it did not fix the problem--I had to also kill and restart nm-applet. I'm using 11.04 amd64 on a brand-new System76 Serval Professional.
Interestingly, this bug doesn't happen on any of my other computers, all of which are also running 11.04 amd64. This computer is also the only computer I have with 802.11n support (Centrino Advanced-N 6230 rev 34), which I am using with a Netgear WNDR3700v2 router. Looking at Jamin's NetDevice.wlan0.txt file, he has 802.11n support too.
Perhaps this is a bug in NetworkManager's 802.11n support or in a 802.11n driver?